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Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty

“In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.”

Ifs War Whole Happens Young Mistake Exercise Consequence Regard Faults Prepared Soldier Unusual Fatigue Embarrassment

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.”

“Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Believe Mean Said Seems Judging Tomorrow Bed Speech Consequence Tonight Boss Freedom Of Speech Spouse If You Believe Insulting

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith”

Self Christ Consequence Capacity Righteousness Godliness Self Righteousness

Author:W. Ian Thomas

“My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.”

Sometimes Facts Mother Reading Class Teacher Teaching Taught Consequence India Bored Hindi English Teacher Reading More

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.”

People Belief Consequence Very Good Excuse Behave

Author:Philip Pullman

“Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?”

People Ifs Art Able Artist Next Social Technology Art Is Consequence Convinced Precise Psychics

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.”

Ifs Ends Situation Picks Consequence Sticks Response

Author:Stephen Covey

“Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.”

Has Beens Mines Duty Consequence

Book:Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man

Source: Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man

“Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.”

Economic Products Consequence Fascism Dictatorship Dictator Jam

Author:John T. Flynn

“Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.”

People Sometimes Study Risk Consequence Rewards Philosopher Thinker Falsehood Exposure Fragility Payoff Truth And Falsehood Risk And Reward

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.”

Humans Play Belief Decision Poor Roles Taken Consequence Negative Let Me Bigger Fragile Payoff True And False Asymmetry

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.”

Ifs Past Sides Realizing Decision Taken Week Consequence Lifetime Sat Over You Probability Pencils Fragility Payoff

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.”

Philosophy Faces Grows Loss Tree Sky Consequence Errors Eras Permanent Adoption Penalties Conservatism New Era

Author:Warren Buffett

“I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.”

World Long Values Courses Term Effort Practice Security Periods Consequence Bother Long Term Short Term Business World

Author:Warren Buffett

“My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.”

Jobs Parent Responsibility Eternal Consequence Temporary

Author:Tim Kimmel

“We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.”

War Matter Philosophy Fighting Three Four Cost Consequence Europe Slavery Historical Slave Notion Jew Flying Tyranny Genocide Trusted Bowls Super Bowl No War

Author:Bill Whittle

“Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.”

Ifs Writing Book Reason Written Fields Adults Consequence

Author:Terry Pratchett

“God did not create the evil. He established the laws which are always good because he is good. The spirits would have been completely happy had they faithfully observed the law since the beginning. But, being free to make choices, the spirits have not properly obeyed them so that evil come as a consequence of this unwillingness. One can then say that good corresponds to everything which is in accordance with God's law while evil is everything which opposes it.”

Has Beens Law Spirit Choices Evil Consequence Being Free

Author:Allan Kardec

“The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.”

Knows Men Term Consequence Every Man Defence

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.”

People Knows Seems Age Responsibility Greater Degrees Consequence Extremes Criminals Teenager Adulthood Decrease Parental

Author:John Scott

“It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.”

Needs Humans States Social Liberty Diversity Consequence Deeper Libertarian Assumption Association Intervention Social Life Human Needs

Book:For Reasons Of State

Source: For Reasons Of State

“To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.”

Firsts Easy Consequence Blind Perseverance Impulse Persevere Sanctity Inertia

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“People want to catch a buzz. That is why drugs are illegal, yet people still try to get their hands on them no matter what the consequence. Drugs make us happy, they may not be healthy.”

People Want Trying May Stills Matter Hands Healthy Drug Consequence No Matter What Illegal Buzz

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.”

Consequence Americanism

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.”

“There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.”

Causes Dangerous Consequence Errors

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".”

Believe Might Eye Process Progress Plans Impossible Failing Arms Solutions Evidence Consequence Regard Sake Nuclear Negotiation Urgent Nuclear Arms

Author:Mona Charen

“If it's cynical, risky politics that brings a lighted match and a can of gas near the Democratic coalition, it should be named as such, and its consequences understood, and it should become part of the complex calculus we're all building to help us understand these campaigns.”

Ifs Should Helping Building Understood Consequence Democratic Complexes Campaigns Gas Cynical Coalitions Calculus

Author:Ezra Klein

“I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.”

Taken Consequence Punishment Hangover

Author:John Steinbeck

“I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.”

People Young Drink Drug Late Consequence

Author:Moby

“I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're legally entitled to. But I follow the letter of the law, because the consequences are severe if you're caught. I was a perpetrator at one time and suffered severe consequences. It is difficult in some places, but if you live in places like California, move somewhere else to save some money.”

Ifs Moving Law Difficult Break Imagine Taxes Consequence Advantage Letters Caught Honestly California Strongest One Time Entitled Severe Somewhere Else Perpetrators Tax Breaks

Author:Michael Franzese

“One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.”

Way Sometimes Reason Action Easy My Friends Consequence Meat Lazy Eggs Ethical Vegan Easy Way

Author:Moby

“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.”

“The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.”

Ends Artist Streets Wall Consequence Robots Robotics Traders Soulful

Author:M.I.A.

“The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.”

Persons Play Walks Imagine Possibility Happenings Consequence Details Theatre Tension Definite Vague

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of the things you learn in the film is that there were major consequences for even trying to vote. You could be killed for trying to vote. You could definitely be fired from your job and many were, which is why so few black Mississippians even attempted to register early on. They put your name in the newspaper if you tried to register to vote.”

People Ifs Trying Looks Jobs Film Names Black Majors Consequence Tests Vote Newspapers Black People Literacy Register Mississippi

Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.

“I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.”

Thinking World Together Technology Pieces Television Consequence Magnificent Unintended Consequences

Author:Steve Jobs

“Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.”

“There are a few obvious consequences and perhaps one subtle possibility. One obvious thing is that, to stimulate the economy, President Obama has committed to creating millions of green jobs that will leave a legacy - much as Roosevelt's public works did during the new deal.”

Jobs President Deals Millions Economy Possibility Creating Consequence Green Committed Obvious Legacy Subtle President Obama New Deal Obvious Things

Author:Denis Hayes

“The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore. But the most important truth is that we are capable of stopping climate change before the worst of its consequences are locked in. The solutions exist - all we need is the will to do something about it.”

Ifs World Needs Important Worst Truth Is Capable Solutions Consequence Climate Species Climate Change Critical Locked Stopping Juncture

Author:Al Gore

“Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions.”

Writing Sex Causes Bits Interesting Consequence Description Length Describing

Author:Richard Flanagan

“I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.”

Has Beens Care Fool Consequence Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Billy Joel

“During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence.”

Wells War Government Difficult Groups Conflict Consequence Civil War Nomad Proxy During The Civil War

Author:Rebecca Hamilton

“One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.”

People Feels Trying Book Issues Groups Internet Consequence Grateful Presses Topics Infrastructure Urgent Tubes Free Press Nonprofits

Author:Astra Taylor

“One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.”

People Vision Building Consequence Expected Brands Chasing Clicks Building A Brand

Author:Astra Taylor

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