Top 1200 Consequences Of Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.

For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated.

You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.

You have to think about the consequences of actions, and if they're negative, that shouldn't be your choice.

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual,or transgender-let me say- you are not alone. You're struggle, for the end to violence and discrimination, is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call upon all countries and people, to stand with you too.A historic shift is underway. We must tackle the violence, decriminalize consensual same sex relationships and end discrimination. We must educate the public. I call on this council and people of conscience to make this happen.The time has come.

The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of a proposed course; the good economist looks also at the longer and indirect consequences. The bad economists sees only what the effect of a given policy has been or will be on one particular group; the good economist inquires also what the effect of the policy will be on all groups

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

I grew up in a family that was aware of the consequences of diabetes.

I've worked in a mortuary and seen the consequences of what guns and knives do to people.

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

Weaknesses are part of human nature. What matters are the consequences they can have on a squad.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

If the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.

Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and also in the forms of institutional violence - sweatshops, child labor, victimization of people economically - happens elsewhere and out of sight. And when we do know about it and need to witness it, it's always mediated by images of one kind or another, so you're kind of stuck trying to write about what it's like trying to be you living your life thinking about and experiencing this stuff in that way.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.