“If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.” IfsWantShouldReasonFactsProblemAcceptingIntellectualConsequenceSuicideDenyCommitNo ReasonFundCivilizedOutlookCivilized SocietyScientific FactsInhumane Author:Nancy Pearcey
“All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.” SidesInterestKnownAcceptingEffectsPossibilityConsequenceSatisfactionAlternativesAffectedRegulationNormSide EffectsObservance Author:Jurgen Habermas
“When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.” DoeMatterActionUsedMistakeAcceptingConsequenceResponseInsaneReasoningAppropriateMaking MistakesRejectsFeedbackSelective Author:Erik Naggum
“Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.” WayAcceptingWillingDemandAuthorityConscienceConsequencePenaltiesDisobedienceCivil Disobedience Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.” ThinkingActionAcceptingBirthConsequenceMiseryPreparedSwingsNonconformistPrudesScorpios Author:Vivien Leigh
“A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.” DecisionAcceptingMinesComfortableConsequenceSkinsLive ByGlovesThug Book:Magic City: Trials of a Native Son Source: Magic City: Trials of a Native Son
“Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.” TwoLawAsksAcceptingFourAdviceConsequencePreference Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever the particular path He wants you to tread, will you rise up, and say in your heart, "Yes, Lord, I accept it; I submit, I yield, I pledge myself to walk in that path, and to follow that Voice, and to trust Thee with the consequences"? Oh! but you say, "I don't know what He will want next." No, we none of us know that, but we know we shall be safe in His hands.” KnowsWantHeartHandsNextAsksWishVoiceWalksAcceptingLordPathSacrificeParticularSafeConsequenceCrossesEmbraceTheeYieldSubmitPledgeWish You Author:Catherine Booth
“Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.” PeopleIfsShouldMayLongWarStatesFactsCareLastsLibertyAcceptingPowerEconomyAliveEffectsWillingConsequenceEconomicsArgumentBasesConstitutionPropertyDebtRelatePermanentEngagement Author:Robert H. Jackson
“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background . This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.” IfsKnowsWayDoeHardWould BeLawResultsAttitudeKnownAcceptingPrinciplesMaterialsTheoryConsequenceTestsScientistPrejudiceHistoricalTechniqueBackgroundsAbsurdMathematicalAmbiguous Book:Against Method Source: Against Method
“Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.” MenMayActionChoicesPayAttentionAcceptingCasesConsequenceResponsibleInvestingPay AttentionDecision MakingInner Life Author:W. H. Auden
“The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting them because we decided that as an adult society, we can use children to make our lives better, if you seek the reverse.” IfsChildrenUseAcceptingOur LivesAdultsConsequenceDecidedRefuseAbortionReverseInevitability Author:Greg Gutfeld
“There is no salvation without accepting Joseph Smith. If Joseph Smith was verily a prophet, and if he told the truth...no man can reject that testimony without incurring the most dreadful consequences, for he cannot enter the kingdom of God” IfsMenAcceptingConsequenceSalvationKingdomsProphetRejectsTestimonyKingdom Of GodJoseph SmithIncurring Author:Joseph Fielding Smith
“Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.” ActionSpiritualOrderPowerfulResponsibilityAcceptingMaterialsConsequenceAgentsAccepting Responsibility Author:Les Brown
“I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.” WorldIdeasRealLiteratureAcceptingConsequenceEntertainmentReal World Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person” ThinkingShouldPersonsGrowsMistakeAcceptingRegretConsequenceLearn From Your Mistakes Author:Marilyn Manson