Consequence Quotes

• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Special

• Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Consequence
  • Oil
  • Export

• As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Americans

• I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Birds
  • Not Believe
  • Peacock

• Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Behavior
  • Principles

• The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Science
  • Law
  • Teach

• Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Consequence
  • Madness
  • Uncertainty

• Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

  

  Carl Ludwig
  • Body
  • Animal
  • Function

• There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Drug
  • Stills
  • Lasting

• I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

  

  James Boswell
  • Women
  • Consequence
  • Chastity

• Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

  

  Murray Kempton
  • Journey
  • Commitment
  • Recollection

• Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • May
  • Help
  • Helping

• There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Neighbor

• I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • I Think
  • Consequence
  • Aggravated

• Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

  

  Plato
  • Military
  • Consequence
  • Promotion

• The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Earth
  • Care
  • Breathing

• 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.

  

  William Lane Craig
  • Values
  • Ultimate
  • Immortality

• The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Moments
  • Broken
  • Credit

• Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has shown to exist in quantities millions of times greater than is liberated by combustion.

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • Important
  • Science
  • Energy

• Consequence is no coincidence.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Consequence
  • Coincidence

• I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Things
  • Fool
  • Consequence

• Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.

  

  Dean Frazer
  • Feelings
  • Evidence
  • Intolerance

• Let this iniquity be viewed in its true magnitude, and in the shocking light in which it has been set in this conversation; let the wretched case of the poor blacks be considered with proper pity and benevolence, together with the probably dreadful consequence to this land of retaining them in bondage, and all objection against liberating them would vanish.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Land
  • Dreadful
  • Retaining

• In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.

  

  Bernhard von Cotta
  • Law
  • Results
  • Current

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