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“The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process”

Way Sometimes Seems Process Moral Models Consequence Surface Drawing Ethical Uncertain Constructs

Author:William Kentridge

“Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.”

Persons Behavior Consequence

Author:B. F. Skinner

“We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.”

People World Kind War Faces Effort Principles Struggle Civilization Conscience Consequence Destruction Silent Refuse Partners Civil War Relentless Joining

Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.”

Men Principles Events Consequence Prejudice Dare Violent Prudent

Book:Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary

Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary

“Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.”

School Consequence Negative Blame Credit Negative Consequences

Author:Denise Richards

“The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.”

War Fire Weapons Consequence Essence Famine Pestilence Outbreaks

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness”

Should Values Known Practice Consequence

Author:Bertrand Meyer

“A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.”

Belief Common Consequence Importance Common Sense Preserves Novelists Childlike

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.”

Trying Impossible Consequence Clever

Author:Christopher Strachey

“Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved cannot feel this connection.”

People Feels Important Together Community Results Succeed Consequence Connections Accomplish

Author:Richard Cornuelle

“The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.”

People Facts Interesting Movement Hero Mets Consequence International East Disappear Usual Representatives Most Interesting Nameless Delegation Porto

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.”

World Ideas Real Risk Consequence Real World Taking Risks Mischievous

Author:Shepard Fairey

“What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are in your plan. We have to live with the historical record as it is, like it or not.”

Matter Law Study Records Plans Consequence Historical Secure Kicks I Have Learned Unintended Consequences

Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld

“Although the decision to get a dog can seem light on the surface, it's actually a long-term commitment much like a human mate. The consequences of a bad decision can be difficult for everyone involved.”

Humans Long Light Seems Difficult Term Decision Dog Involved Commitment Consequence Surface Long Term Mates Bad Decision

Author:Elizabeth Holmes

“It is true that the vast majority of gun deaths in America are not the consequence of the use of an 'assault weapon.' But that begs the question of whether assault weapons have any real utility either in terms of any sporting or self protection needs.”

Needs Real Self Use America Term Weapons Gun Consequence Majority Protection Assault Utility Self Protection Assault Weapons

Author:Joe Biden

“The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.”

Humans May Action Form Actors Effort Conditions Fashion Produce Activity Projects Conscious Consequence Flow Feedback Human History Elude Unintended Consequences

Author:Anthony Giddens

“When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.”

People Virtue Tree Flower Consequence Method Vices Educated Strict Fragrance Escaping Tree Of Life Adherence

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

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

Law Limits Consequence Finite Precision

Author:Kurt Gödel

“Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.”

“If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.”

People Ifs Want Needs Two Government Action Evil Moral Groups Gun Consequence Majority Definitions Hungry Two Things Good And Evil Want Something Evil People Power Hungry

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”

People Ifs Way Feels Important Whole Helping Consequence Claims Activism Useless Fabric Counterproductive

Book:Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.”

Form Certain Natural Novel Theory Behavior Consequence Arise Characteristics Selection Natural Selection Selected Discarded Mutation Reinforcement

Book:Science And Human Behavior

Source: Science And Human Behavior

“An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.”

Way Eye Life Is Gone Waste Consequence Flow Ears Active Impression Motor Incomplete Pupils Active Life

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing "rm x y z" is a lot faster than clicking five times and then having to convince the system that you really, truly, mean it and this is not a mistake and that you are consenting adult over 18 and that you completely understand the consequences and you still want to do it.”

Want Needs Writing Mean Stills Felt Mistake Five Adults Consequence Faster Convince Drivers Mice Typing

Author:Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.”

Important Matter Character Stories Care Action Jobs Movement Consequence Important Things Don't Care I Don't Care Plot Villain Protagonists

Author:Amy Pascal

“I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about these other solutions - like a billion tons of iron filings in the ocean or putting sunshades between us and the sun - they're huge. We have no idea if they will work. We have no idea what their nasty consequences might be. And it's unlikely we can do them anyway.”

Ifs Knows Kind Ideas Might Can Do Know How Sun Huge Taxes Ocean Solutions Consequence Billions No Idea Iron Nasty Carbon Unlikely Filing Carbon Tax

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.”

Force Powerful Responsibility Racism Consequence Prejudice Indifference Racist Holocaust Citizenship Stereotype Inaction Ramifications Racism And Prejudice

Author:Tim Holden

“I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.”

Should Believe War Lasts I Believe Consequence Harsh Resorts

Author:Asne Seierstad

“Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.”

Deals Violence Policy Consequence Tools Arena Intervention Health System Consequences Of Violence

Author:Julio Frenk

“If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more.”

People Ifs Thinking Care Action Consequence Violent

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“The fact that someone didn't experience the war itself doesn't mean that he doesn't perceive its consequences.”

Mean War Facts Consequence Perceive

Author:Guido Westerwelle

“I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.”

People Thinking Ends Force Sides Mistake Achieve Consequence Weak Prison Occupation Palestinian Both Sides Israeli Uprising Initiate Unleashing Israeli Occupation

Author:Tom Segev

“Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.”

Important Reason Would Be Clear Majors Consequence Debt Greece Bankruptcy Euro

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.”

Thinking Way War Deals Technology Son Politician Daughter Consequence Harm Barriers Dropping Son And Daughter Against War

Author:P. W. Singer

“I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see what those consequences are. Having championed the war, I wanted to see the products of my own argument.”

Thinking Want Important War Wanted Sound My Own Products Consequence Argument Pompous

Author:Lawrence Kaplan

“Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.”

Feels Should Results Policy Consequence Oneself Feel Good Foreign Policy Justified Tangible

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.”

Ifs War States Problem Today Together Choices Religious Break Failing Conflict Consequence Independence Iraq Enormous Dramatic Civil War Working Together Als Provinces Break Out Kurds

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“We are saying that if the Holocaust occurred, then Europe must draw the consequences and that it is not Palestine that should pay the price for it. If it did not occur, then the Jews have to go back to where they came from. I believe that the German people today are also prisoners of the Holocaust.”

People Ifs Should Believe Today I Believe Pay Draws Consequence Europe Jew Prisoner Holocaust Palestine Pay The Price

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.”

Lying Deals Benefits Consequence

Author:Devin Kelley

“Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.”

Action Responsibility Behavior Consequence Taking Responsibility Our Actions

Book:180 Ways to Walk the Leadership Talk

Source: 180 Ways to Walk the Leadership Talk

“Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences, we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent?”

People Ifs Knows Feels May Persons Doe Facts Action Christ Sin Hell Eternal Consequence Bases Bounds Folks Refuse Favors Lifestyle Feel Good Repent

Book:Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God

Source: Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God

“As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.”

Knows World Trying Character Consequence Concerned Changing The World Metals Trying To Change Fictional Character

Author:Christopher Lee

“All I can say is, I did my best. This was the job I undertook, I did my best, and I could not have done more in the circumstances. What people think of it, I have to leave to them. It is of no great consequence. What is of consequence is I did my best.”

People Thinking I Can Done Jobs Circumstances Consequence

Author:Mr. Lee

“For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries, or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It's all insidious damage that you get that's a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the diseases of aging.”

Firsts Long Facts Term Example Disease Consequence Aging Cancer Bones Satisfied Long Term Damage Protein Vitamins Insidious Arteries Fracture

Author:Bruce Ames

“I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that those choices have consequences, not just for ourselves, but for others. We must assume responsibility for those consequences.”

Choices Responsibility Consequence Assuming

Author:John Sheridan

“Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.”

Years Has Beens Self Problem Lying Suffering Saws Consequence Patterns Serving Warning Persistent Pathetic Refrain Self Serving Looming

Book:The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t

Source: The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t

“Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.”

Soul Consequence Selling Your Soul Staying True To Yourself Stay True Stay True To Yourself

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.”

Mean Evidence Consequence Salvation Good Work Indispensable

Book:The Message of Ephesians

Source: The Message of Ephesians

“Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.”

Years Bigs Commitment Consequence Stuck Bad Things Aftermath

Author:Mary Harron

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