Consequence Quotes

“You can't do just one thing.”

“The fourth law of ecology is that there is no such thing as a free lunch.”

“Even a single hair has its shadow.”

“Every solution breeds new problems.”

“When you play a game of chess, it is like you are building a bridge. If you make one bad move, the whole bridge collapses.”

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”

“For more than 45 years, in fact, I’ve been in a kind of internal exile.”

“Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.”

“We must proactively think about the unintended consequences of the technologies we build.”

“I learned early that you can't write a story about a skunk without getting the smell on you.”

“This is a story about war, but it is also a story about the things that men do in war and the things that war does to them.”

“The second law of ecology is that everything must go somewhere.”

“When you live by the gun, you die by the gun.”

“Glory is a torch that consumes the person who carries it.”

“The consequences of this decision will be devastating. This is an all-out assault on the constitutional right to abortion.”

“I'm a big believer in karma. What you put out comes back to you.”

“The road to ruin is kept in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.”

“The agency essentially destroyed me professionally for 20 years.”

“Hate is a kind of prayer. It is the only prayer that is always answered.”

“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”