Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

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• Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Consequences

• Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • High
  • Want
  • Matter

• After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Build
  • Consequences
  • Pattern

• Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Why
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Country
  • Drama

• Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Character
  • Book
  • Me

• The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Consequences
  • Probability

• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Law
  • Sorry
  • Consequences

• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Poverty
  • Point
  • Consequences

• When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Moral
  • Forget
  • Consequences

• Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Language
  • Consequences

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Look

• Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Future
  • Law
  • Picture

• If there are no consequences now for breaking the prohibition on chemical weapons, it will be harder to muster an international consensus to ensure that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups are prevented from acquiring or using these weapons themselves.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Now
  • Weapons
  • Consequences

• I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Great
  • Saint
  • Claim

• Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Taxes
  • Consequences

• You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Wife
  • Player
  • Claim

• Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Up
  • Englishman
  • Improved

• It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this time’; or, ‘We should wait until present ones are improved.’

  

  Enos Mills
  • Congress
  • Opposition
  • Improved

• The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Writing
  • Individual
  • Creating

• You cannot play naive if you're not.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • You
  • Play
  • Naive

• Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Consequences
  • Claim
  • Improved