Consequence Quotes

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. (Marshall McLuhan)
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. View quote
Stanley Milgram
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. View quote
Voltaire
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything. View quote
José Rizal
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. (John Ruskin)
I believe, like you, that civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence, whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself. View quote
Judith Butler
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. View quote
William Blake
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betrays In deepest consequence. View quote
William Shakespeare
...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence. View quote
Eve Ensler
What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself. View quote
David Coverdale
The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather. View quote
William Henry Ashley
Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. (Thomas Jefferson)
If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose. View quote
William Lane Craig
In the early ages of the world, according to the Scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion. View quote
Thomas Paine
Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement. View quote
Maimonides
The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief. View quote
George Henry Lewes