Consequences Quotes

Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness.

Bertrand Meyer
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.

Nikolaas Tinbergen
Ultimately, the problem we face is confronting a twenty-third-century dilemma armed only with a thirteenth-century mind. Our project of civilization has been successful on scales we could not have imagined when we began it ten millennia ago. But with that success has come consequences that will last for centuries.

Adam Frank
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes
Do right. Risk the consequences.

Bob Enyart
- Risk
- Right
- Consequences
What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.

Ernesto Zedillo
- Problem
- Economy
- Claims
Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Marian Wright Edelman
- Die
- Democracy
- Breathe