“Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at least as far as the British at home were concerned. Bestowing freedom upon them seemed therefore purely an act of humanity and will, an achievement that would be to Great Britain's economic detriment, perhaps, but would have few other domestic consequences.” StillsDifferentHomeWould BeHumanityEconomicAchievementConsequenceConcernedSkinsDiedSlaveBritishColourBritainGreat BritainBritish HistoryBritons Author:Linda Colley
“The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.” ChildrenChristianMotherAtheismThousandEatingConsequenceDiedTwentiesKillingHungerPositive AtheismLocalsThirtyNicaraguaMaize Author:Bartolome de las Casas
“I think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the country, expand it all from coast to coast - were very modern and radical in those days. Also, the fact that he married who he did and that he managed to deal with the consequences and ramifications of that marriage and stay on the throne until the day he died, that shows skill.” ThinkingCountryFactsShowsDealsModernKingsSkillsMarriedConsequenceDiedRadicalThinkerThronesCoastRamifications Author:Max Irons
“I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the massive diversion of parental attention, and the consequences of being compelled to care for their brother after I died. I wanted a genetically perfect baby, and because that was something I could control, I chose to end his life.” WantChildrenEndsCareWantedPerfectAttentionBrotherBabyConsequenceDiedRaisesMy ChildrenMassiveCompelledParentalDiversion Author:Ayelet Waldman
“The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.” EndsTodayArtistCenturyConsequenceDiedMereFollowingReplacedSpecialistsTechniciansPolymaths Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.” TurnsTermNumbersPolicyConsequenceDiedIraqDisasterRegionsVietnamForeign PolicyUnintended ConsequencesAmerican Foreign PolicyReverberation Author:Madeleine Albright
“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingI CanWarWholeMomentsTodayUsedLyingSunWrittenBrokenRevolutionConsequenceDiedTwentiesShameAccidentsMaking LoveDelaySixteenContraceptivesScorching Book:Simple Passion Source: Simple Passion
“Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.” OrderSinChristianityConsequenceDiedFollowersFounders Author:Tim LaHaye
“I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.” PeopleDoeMadeAgeGrowsGrowing UpMissingYouthNewsConsequenceDiedSurpriseExpectedMaturityUnexpectedInfantCalculationsInfancySurprise MeFriend Died Author:Mark Twain
“And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove Tuesday; and that Lord died as a consequence, may God absolve him! And you should know that there was at least an acre of land behind the Templars, which was so covered with arrows fired by the Saracens, that none of the ground could be seen.” KnowsShouldMayWarEyeLostBehindsLordLandBrotherMastersBattleConsequenceDiedCoveredArrowsTuesdayAcresMedieval WarTemplars Author:Jean de Joinville