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Source: North to freedom

“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.”

Source: The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World

“As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.”

Made Decision Pleasure Consequence Ruins Maps Destination Biographies

Book:The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves

“You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler”

Done Choices Behinds Saws Mountain Consequence Weight Blame Shoulders Civilians Steep Treacherous Deserted Philip Agonizing Boulders Adler Make Your Own Choices

Author:Max Brooks

“A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.”

Values Choices Knowing Willing Bears Consequence Right Choices

Author:James A. Owen

“You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.”

Consequence

Author:Susane Colasanti

“Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.”

People Firsts Worry Consequence Criminals

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.”

Thinking Way Want Persons Long Doe Lows Consequence Disgrace

Book:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”

Mean Forget Teach Students Discipline Consequence Disciple Really Mean

Book:The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Source: The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

“All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.”

Consequence Fairy Savages Inviting Backyards

Author:Kim Harrison

“This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.”

World Whole Artist Fighting Causes Understanding Too Much Impossible Consequence Whole World Familiar Premature Perversion Lack Of Understanding

Book:The Basic Kafka

Source: The Basic Kafka

“They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.”

Writing Care Attention Wonder Heard Objects Consequence Take Care Evening Affected Organs Nevertheless Idle Employed Infant Examining

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.”

People Mean Action Christian Evil Atheism Consequence Majority Atheist Thoughts And Actions

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.”

Source: The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: Anna Karénina, tr. by Louise and Aylmer Maude

“That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.”

Enough Desire Wish Regret Consequence Increase Longing Impulse Speakers Defiance Uncontrollable Mortification Deep Regret

Book:The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

“Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity”

Individual Consequence Insanity Collectives Immune

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”

Happens Choices Results Mistake Greater Consequence Define You One Mistake

Author:Jojo Moyes

“That's where you come in. I want into that guy's mind, and you need to tell me how to do it." Ad shrugged. "Personally, I'd just use a hacksaw, but—" "There are potential consequences and side effects," Eddie said carefully. "Like what?" "Well, worst case... he could end up like Adrian.”

Want Needs Mind Wells Said Ends Use Guy Sides Cases Worst Effects Consequence Ads That Guy Side Effects Where You Come

Book:Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

Source: Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

“Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8”

Self Seems Age Universe Humility Masters Source Self Love Consequence Endure Odd Chapters Impress Foolishness Absurdity Apocalypse Ripe Dean Narcissist Odd Thomas

Book:Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel

“In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.”

World Book Belief Saws This World Consequence Garden Foolish Deceit Serpent

Author:Libba Bray

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.”

Firsts Littles Long Matter Secret Land Tears Long Time Consequence First Time Arguing Narrators Secret Places

Author:Megan Hart

“If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.”

People Ifs Thinking Courses Asks Consequence Twenties Calm Drunk Twenty One Fourteen Calm Down

Author:Ben Aaronovitch

“Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.”

Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.”

Ifs Self Whole Civilization Ego Consequence Ultimate Western Sense Of Self Transcendent Western Civilization Ennui

Author:Terence McKenna

“No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.”

Earth Culture Term Attitude Behavior Consequence Crisis West Pursue Atmosphere Contradiction Usual Surreal

Author:Terence McKenna

“It is your karma to fight evil. It doesn't matter if the people that evil is being committed against don't fight back. It doesn't matter if the entire world chooses to look the other way. Always remember this. You don't live with the consequences of other people's karma. You live with the consequences of your own”

People Ifs World Way Looks Matter Remember Fighting Evil Consequence Committed Karma Amish

Author:Amish Tripathi

“A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.”

Persons Accepting Moral Morality Consequence

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.”

Knows Moments Consequence Counting

Author:Mitch Albom

“From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.”

Thinking Art Ideas Self Given Consequence Practicals Works Of Art

Author:Michel Foucault

“One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”

People Feels Enough Politics Liberty Grace Nice Economic Consequence Notion Being Nice Entitlement

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”

Action Consequence Claims Karma Indifferent Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.”

Love Is Consequence And Love Separation Deterioration Faith And Love

Book:Writings on religion

Source: Writings on religion

“His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.”

Ifs Looks Book Would Be Eye Enjoy Interesting Attention Events Conversation Consequence Tables Lays Raised Caught His Eyes Companion Aloof Enquiry Interesting Conversation

Author:Georgette Heyer

“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.”

Source: The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

“We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.”

Thinking Made Sometimes Life Is Decision Mistake Consequence Miserable Making Mistakes Bad Decision We All Make Mistakes Miserable Life

Book:Chronicles of Nick

Source: Chronicles of Nick

“Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.”

Ends Position Consequence Areas Appreciate Miracle Conviction Meaningful Mortals Grey Doubters Miracle Of Life Most Meaningful Incredulity Grey Areas

Author:Terryl L. Givens

“Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself”

Steps Achievement Consequence Oneself Sincerity Every Step Steps Forward Toughness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.”

Should Fall Wall Protect Limits Consequence Trumpets

Book:Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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

Easy Mistake Consequence Hardest Making Mistakes

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

People Should Has Beens War Would Be Able Joy Simple Poor Fronts Consequence Should Have Misfortunes Better Off Should Have Been Wisest

Book:All quiet on the western front

Source: All quiet on the western front

“Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.”

“Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.”

Thinking Choices Consequence Our Choices

Author:Kami Garcia

“Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.”

Love Should Able Love Is Consequence Illogical

Author:Marie Lu

“Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.”

Important Decision Consequence Tools Strive Important Decisions

Book:Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

Source: Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

“And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.”

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?”

Doubt Consequence Shame Guilt Instinct Speaking Out

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.”

Cost Consequence

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Rather than the destination it is the journey that lends meaning to our lives, great Neelkanth. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe.”

Way Wells Universe Path Our Lives Journey Consequence Faithful Destination Being Faithful

Author:Amish Tripathi

“Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?”

Doe Done Evil Deserve Consequence

Book:The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”

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