“The Democratic Party is a closed clique. They are not the best and brightest. They're not the smartest. They haven't had to prove themselves in the market in many of these peoples' cases, the career politicians. This is the establishment. This is the elites. Their concerns just have very little in common. Illegal immigration, to complain about it is so, so uninformed and so small-minded. They never encounter, they never face the consequences of their own laws. They don't face the consequences of their own directives or actions.” LittlesActionFacesLawPartyCommonCareersCasesHavensPoliticianProveConsequenceConcernDemocraticComplainingImmigrationEncountersIllegalEstablishmentElitesDemocratic PartyIllegal ImmigrationCliqueUninformedCareer Politicians Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.” FirstsNationsImagineConsequenceMinistersPrimeMilkPrime MinisterNourishment Author:Hilary Mantel
“Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea has become. We're suspended in consequences, you might say.” MightSeaMinesConsequenceMore TimeSurfSuspendedSurferSoakingCanaries Author:Tim Winton
“I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction.” ThinkingActionPresidentResponsibilityLessonsConsequenceInaction Author:Chuck Hagel
“The George W. Bush universe of threats is a constantly expanding universe as he moves to politically higher ground, escaping from failure after failure. He's not only radical, but the consequences of his radicalism have been catastrophic.” Has BeensMovingUniverseHigherConsequenceThreatRadicalExpandingEscapingRadicalismHigher GroundExpanding Universe Author:Sidney Blumenthal
“I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the name of national security the US government both overtly and covertly aligns itself with the apartheid state and against heroic freedom fighters for racial justice ... Not only in 1962 but also keeping in mind that Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008, that kind of myopic understanding of national security has devastating consequences.” NeedsMindKindStatesGovernmentNamesNationsUnderstandingJusticeUnitedWatchesUnited StatesSecurityConsequenceTerrorListsFighterHeroicNot InterestedNational SecurityEmbarrassingApartheidFreedom FighterRacial JusticeMyopic Author:Ryan Shapiro
“For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.” PeopleWantDifferentTodayCultureSpaceEconomyTomorrowConsequenceProgramInnovationFertileSpawnSpace Program Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should be shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. It was a big decision; I didn't take it lightly, or in ignorance of its consequences. It's a big commitment for a country to give, but I believed it was the right thing to do.” GivingShouldCountryBigsGamesDecisionSecurityPositionIgnorancePerceptionCommitmentConsequenceThreatShouldersThings To DoRight ThingBritainAlteredBig DecisionsGame Changers Author:Tony Blair
“There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.” ShouldHumanityVisionCreativityCreativeWillingDegreesConsequenceTolerateFrozenUnstableSuperstitiousInstabilityHubris Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesEyeEffectsFrontsConsequence Author:Noam Chomsky
“You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.” PeopleWayNeedsConsequencePreparedExpress Yourself Author:Irvine Welsh
“In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth.” SchoolEarthAmericaNationsCenturyConsequenceWorkersProductivePublic SchoolSchool SystemSkilled Workers Author:Barack Obama
“The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly for folks who have to suffer the consequences of some of these facilities.” EndsProblemSufferingEnergySourceConsequenceCleanFolksFacilityRenewable EnergyClean EnergyEnergy SourcesRenewable Energy Sources Author:Barack Obama
“A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.” WorldTwoImportantWarRealitySchoolFilmInterestSituationHappenedParticularTypeMajorsConsequenceFocusedPostsRelateIntimateWar Of The WorldsItalianInteriorsExceptionalWorld War TwoPost War Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks. It has never worked! It has never fulfilled its promise.” PromiseConsequenceFolksLiberalismFulfilled Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I felt when I was elected that the most important task on this island [Ireland] was to extend the hand of friendship right across the board to the people of Northern Ireland, to have the beginnings of a real peace process. In consequence, although I have no role in intergovernmental talks or political discussions, that would be my very top priority.” PeopleImportantRealHandsWould BePoliticalFeltProcessRolesConsequenceTasksPrioritiesDiscussionBoardsIslandsIrelandTop PrioritiesNorthern Ireland Author:Mary Robinson
“The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China or Turkey or Indonesia, India doesn't mow down its people. It doesn't kill people who are refusing to move. It just waits it out. It continues to do what it has to do and ignores the consequences.” PeopleGovernmentMovingTurnsWaitingConceptsConsequenceIndiaChinaResistanceIndianNonviolenceTurkeysGovernanceIndonesiaNonviolent Resistance Author:Arundhati Roy
“Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.” IfsThinkingWantKindProblemSinCreativeRiskWillingWindCircumstancesCostConsequenceIronyNovelistsTrafficAvoidedSentimentality Author:Steve Erickson
“We are desperately in need of the kind of smart diplomacy that has worked for America in the past. If you use force, it should be a last resort. And it needs to be used with full understanding of the consequences.” IfsNeedsShouldKindUseLastsAmericaPastUsedForceUnderstandingSmartConsequenceDiplomacyResorts Author:Hillary Clinton
“Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves to relocate social problems to the individual rather than exploring the societal roots and determinants of a phenomenon; and second, it diverts attention and funding from the social to the molecular.” ThinkingTwoImportantProblemIndividualWishSocialAttentionConsequenceRootsIdeologyPhenomenonExploringFundingHinderBiologistSocial Problems Author:Steven Rose
“I think it's hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change. I think that, we as a culture, feel like politics is one sector of our lives that can feel apart from our personal lives and the cultural things we're interested in and the sports we watch. It feels like this separate, different thing.” PeopleThinkingFeelsDifferentRealSometimesHardPoliticalCultureSportsWatchesOur LivesConsequenceReal LifeDifferent ThingsPersonal LifePolitical Change Author:Ben H. Winters
“I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening with its consequences, and constructing a rational analysis of it without being able to verbalize it adequately in anything like its full complexity.” ThinkingAbleTroubleEventsHappeningsConsequenceRationalAnalysisComplexityVisualizing Author:Noam Chomsky
“Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent, it comes out of mainstream Christianity, based on beliefs that have had outrageous human consequences in the past, and that I think are totally indefensible. In this case, they happen to lead to some of the most courageous, heroic, and honourable human action that's taking place anywhere in the world. Well, that's how life is, I guess. It doesn't come in neat little packages.” ThinkingWorldMindHumansWellsLittlesHappensActionAmericaPastLife IsBeliefChristianityCasesMovementConsequenceCourageousHeroicMainstreamSolidarityPackagesOutrageousNeatHuman ActionsCentral America Author:Noam Chomsky
“I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows what the consequences would be. I imagine that only an administration that's really desperate would resort to that.” ThinkingKnowsStillsWould BeImagineHugeConsequenceDespiteAdministrationDesperateIranImagine ThatCatastropheResortsUnlikelyNobody Knows Author:Noam Chomsky
“I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.” HumansSocialCostConsequenceEnvironmentalSpeedRadicalConsideringTransportationRailEliminationHigh SpeedHigh Speed Rail Author:Noam Chomsky
“For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were the most vulnerable. In these types of extreme situations, we learned about the consequences of violence and that is why we did not go down the same path.” SituationPathViolenceTypeConsequenceStonesExtremesVulnerableThrownPablo EscobarConsequences Of Violence Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“[My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk to the youth about not repeating [Pablo Escobar's] story because I am a consequence of what he did and I have not changed my stance on violence since we talked about it.” StoriesWould BeFatherViolenceFrontsEventsChangedYouthProudSittingConsequenceHugBe ProudStanceHug MePablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“Although I'm up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing with big questions and possibilities of all sorts of stories with life and death consequences is enthralling and exhilarating to me.” StoriesBigsPassionPossibilityHorrorConsequenceStorytellingGenreLife And DeathExhilaratingBig QuestionsHorror Stories Author:Barbara Crampton
“I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When I was on the road and saw some people do it, I was afraid I would really like it. I was afraid of the consequences.” PeopleMenYearsSawsConsequenceScaredMusic BusinessCoke Author:Kenny Chesney
“How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization.” PeopleYearsHelpingFacesOrderSocialSituationCasesRiskMilitaryExampleSeriousConsequenceCapacityDoctorsWillingnessCompelledEmergenciesEpidemicsColonizationGuineaSierraEbolaSierra Leone Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.” WellsHumanityStrongWealthPoorLevelsSituationDangerConsequenceClimateClimate ChangeCurrentsSettingDespiteSettingsWell BeingGasWarningCapitalistElitesIgnoredCarbonDelayConsensusNeglectedReducingEmissionsGrotesqueAdverseGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesIrreversible Author:Richard A. Falk
“Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due to its refusal to make business adjustments in accounting procedures that pass the consequences of emissions to the public and the future.” WealthPracticeCapitalismConsequenceCrisisDuesIncomeProceduresRefusalAdjustmentEmissionsAccountingAbusiveDisparityDisclosure Author:Richard A. Falk
“As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminality of political leaders, and the lethal consequences of totalising ideologies.” MatterSeemsPoliticalHumanityLeaderCrimeUnderstoodConsequenceIdeologyCombinationSufficientGenocidePolitical LeadersCriminalityCrimes Against Humanity Author:Richard A. Falk
“When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth. We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are. It's easy to put them aside, and the media don't talk about them.” ThinkingNeedsHumansLittlesUseEyeEarthEasyEnvironmentEffectsMediaFrontsConsequenceDestroyingPlasticEpochGeologistDestroying The Environment Author:Noam Chomsky
“Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.” YearsStillsAgeMotivationAsksEnjoyRaceKeysTrainingConsequenceTrackMotivatedRacingBikeGps Author:Valentino Rossi
“We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?” KnowsWantMayDreamSeemsFilmKeysConsequenceLogicAtmosphereTragicAmbiguity Author:Albert Serra
“There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the consequences to refuse to comply with a greatly unjust law.” LawAcceptingConsequenceRefuseWillingnessUnjustUnjust Laws Author:Robert P. George
“The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.” PeopleOrderWhiteIgnoranceRight NowConsequenceDestroyedWhiteness Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I don't have any problem with the United States acting on behalf of its own interests. That's what big powers do; that's what all countries do. I would just like to see us analyze in a serious way what really is in our interest. Sometimes we intervene in foreign countries in ways that seem successful at first. In the end, however, we wind up with unpredicted consequences that make us regret those operations.” WayFirstsEndsCountrySometimesStatesProblemBigsSeemsInterestUnitedActingUnited StatesSuccessfulSeriousWindRegretConsequenceOperationsBehalfForeign Countries Author:Stephen Kinzer
“Donald Trump is dangerous. The truth is that the bigotry and hatred that he speaks have real consequences in people's lives.” RealSpeakDangerousTruth IsConsequenceHatredBigotry Author:Deray McKesson
“North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world.” WorldSecurityMilitaryConsequenceProgramWinterSensibleNuclear WeaponsRejectedNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Noam Chomsky
“One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes on their reservations. That decision has had horrible consequences for law enforcement on Indian reservations. But in that opinion Justice William Rehnquist cites language from the 1830s to explain why whites didn't trust tribes to exercise criminal jurisdiction. They were savages.” LanguageJusticeDecisionOpinionCrimeExerciseConsequenceHorribleCommitLaw EnforcementCiting Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have done the same thing in poetry, but sometimes I feel more fluent in poetry than in prose, and as a consequence perhaps I might pass too quickly by a thing that I might, in prose, have struggled merely to articulate. That struggle creates space, and it seems to me a particular kind of space into which memory flows easily. I suspect I think better in poetry, however.” ThinkingKindSometimesDoneMemoriesAbilityStruggleImagineConsequenceProse Author:Shane McCrae
“I do care about the consequences of being negative toward people who are powerful. But I'm more afraid of not being taken seriously as a critic - by editors, by readers.” PeopleCarePowerfulTakenConsequenceNegativeCriticsI Do Care Author:Dan Chiasson
“As a consequence, I think of the idea of 'common practice' at any time as something that can only be seen by looking backwards. Maybe around the turn of the 20th century there might have been some kind of common practice but now it looks to me like the boundaries have come down.” ThinkingKindCommonConsequenceBoundariesLooking BackBackwards20th Century Author:Jennifer Higdon
“If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice. But because he's now been based to this huge stage, then his dimensions become immense. He's not a tragic figure because he doesn't have the capacity to be tragic. But the consequences of his life and his self now are immense; they're threatening to the world and to the sanctity of human life.” WorldKindCharacterConsequenceMannersHotelTragicThreatening Author:Richard Ford
“One logical consequence of this New Economy composed of big brands and entrepreneurial groups is that the unit of production is no longer a particular, identical product. The unit of production is the creative individual.” IndividualEconomyCreativeConsequenceLogicalEntrepreneurial Author:Robert Reich
“We are now enjoying the liberation that comes with not having to be organization men and women, and that's fabulous. But there are new social consequences here of which we need to be aware, and the sale of the self and what that entails for the rest of our lives is quite sobering.” MenEnjoyMen And WomenConsequenceLiberationFabulous Author:Robert Reich
“Years ago, it wasn't easy to communicate, and it wasn't easy to spread information. We were limited to the few media outlets that controlled viewership around the world and, by consequence, controlled the public opinion. But today, this platform is democratized. Any community around the world can help. That is the great thing about our time.” WorldHelpingTodayEasyCommunityOpinionConsequenceCommunicateSpreadGreat Things Author:Yasmine Elmasri
“The initial 18th-, 19th-century intention was to give the less-educated lower classes a way to move up into this new, rising middle class, to enable them to fit in. So our view of language as being class-based is an unintended consequence of the drive to help educate rising businessmen.” GivingHelpingMovingLanguageFitConsequenceIntentionMiddle ClassEducateBusinessman Author:Kory Stamper