Consequence Quotes

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

The smallest hair throws its shadow.[Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

We are held accountable for every intention, which is why you are sitting where you are right now.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

When money is once parted with, it can never return.

Maybe I think too much for my own good.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

He chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its outcome.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog:Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.