Consequences Quotes

"Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." "Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important" "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action " "In the end, I am reduced by my choices whether bad or good." "Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them." "The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil." "It is not well to make great changes by severe means unless the end really justifies the measure" "A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser." "The hasty stroke goes oft astray" "The burned hand teaches best" "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell" "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance" "The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children" "If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences and infer the motivation" "You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay" "Do your duty as you see it and damn the consequences" "What's done, cannot be undone" "What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?" "If there is no God, everything is permitted" "O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!"