“Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.” MenLanguageConsequenceAssumingGait Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.” WarSeemsActorsNationsSecretLeaderCenturyMilitaryDangerousHavensWeaponsConsequenceArgumentMadnessPoliceAssumingRevengeNuclearRationalBombsExceptionOfficersNuclear WeaponsWarfarePolice OfficerNuclear WarHydrogenNuclear PowerSecret PoliceHydrogen Bomb Author:Carl Sagan
“The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the status of the United Nations. Inevitably, it must assume some aspects of a world government.” WorldNeedsImportantGovernmentActionPoliticalNationsInterestCommunityUnitedCivilizationConsequenceAspectAssumingClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingMultipleUnited NationsEmergingVigorousWorld GovernmentGlobal CommunityGradual Change Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.” SufferingHalfRiskHonestConsequenceAssumingLuxuryBeing HonestGermanyAfghanistanPakistanSkatesHalf MeasuresSuffering The Consequences Author:Susan Rice
“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.” ChoicesResponsibilityConsequenceAssuming Author:John Sheridan
“We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.” WorldHas BeensUseHandsEnergyGivenLibertyOur LivesRiskArmsProtectConsequenceSacredAssumingPropertyPerseveranceCommittedCreatorPreservesDistressHostileCompelledDeposits Book:The Real Thomas Jefferson Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.” WorldSimpleAuthorityConsequenceAssumingRealizationCompetenceAmerican LifeGood Faith Author:Chris Hayes
“A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.” ChoicesResponsibilityWillingConsequenceResponsibleAssuming Author:Gary Zukav
“What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!” KnowsConsequenceCrossesAssuming Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“at first I thought you were just using me" she said "I definitely am." I just wasn't sure for what. "Asshole!" she said, and punched me in the side. And she laughed as my kidney began to hemorrhage. That's the beauty of honesty. Everyones so unused to hearing it they just assume you're kidding, and you get to feel very good and forthcoming without suffering any consequences except for traces of blood in your urine for the next day or two.” FeelsFirstsSaidTwoSufferingNextSidesBloodHonestyConsequenceAssumingVery GoodHearingLaughedNext DayUsing MeKidneysForthcoming Author:Paul Neilan