Consequence Quotes - Page 36

• I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Decision, Citizens, Answers

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• We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues human life and entrusts it to the judgement of individuals. A consequence deriving therefrom is lessened respect for the human person, a value that lies at the foundation of any form of civil coexistence, over and above the faith a person may profess.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Lying, Judgement, May

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• I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

  William Banting

  Indulge In, Watches, Add

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

  Gillian Flynn

  Refuse

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.193, Broadway Books

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• Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

  Mo Udall

  Women, Reform

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• Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Drinking, Light, Priorities

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• All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Games, Hardship, Barren

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Men, People, Islam

  Khalid ibn al-Walid's letter to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III, as quoted in John Clark Ridpath "History of the World, Volume IV (Book XII: The Mohammedan Ascendency, p. 463), 1910.

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• Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.

  Max Stirner

  Cheer, Air, Order

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• The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. Whereas the Lord warns that unrepented rebellion will bring punishment, when the Lord speaks of weaknesses, it is always with mercy.

  Richard G. Scott

  Past, Punishment, Choices

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• When we obey the commandments of the Lord and serve His children unselfishly, the natural consequence is power from God—power to do more than we can do by ourselves. Our insights, our talents, our abilities are expanded because we receive strength and power from the Lord. His power is a fundamental component to establishing a home filled with peace.

  Richard G. Scott

  Children, Home, Fundamentals

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• But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really matter. Decide to do something that will have eternal consequences. Perhaps you have been prompted to look for ancestors but feel you are not a genealogist. Can you see that you don’t have to be anymore? It all begins with love and a sincere desire to help those beyond the veil who can’t help themselves. Check around. There will be someone in your area who can help you have success.

  Richard G. Scott

  Desire, Looks, Veils

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• We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Covenant, Break

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• This is my prayer for all of us — 'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Bridges, Giving

  "Lord, Increase Our Faith". Ensign magazine, pp. 52-53, November 1987.

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• I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

  Warren Buffett

  Ideas, Important, Investing

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• Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

  Eric Schmidt

  Moving, Technology, Government

  "Group calls for ban on spying technology sales" by Stewart Mitchell, www.alphr.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Escorting, Depends

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• At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

  Lawrence Kohlberg

  Expectations, Groups, Maintenance

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• All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Generations, Revolution, Significant

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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• Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when the obstacles to healing are removed. Health is the normal state. Most chronic disease is the inevitable consequence of living a life-style that places disease-causing stressors on the human organism. Fasting gives the body an interlude without those stressors so that it can speedily repair or accomplish healing that could not otherwise occur in the feeding state.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Healing, Giving, Style

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• Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.

  Alan Keyes

  Mother, Rights, Abortion

  Speech at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, www.keyesarchives.com. February 24, 1997.

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• The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

  Walter Scott

  Doe, Information, Matter

  Sir Walter Scott (1858). “Waverley Novels: Quentin Durward. 1862”, p.35

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• Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

  Molly Ivins

  Real, Stupid, Political

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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• Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real things it is not.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Real, Looks, Wages

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.23, Crown Business

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