Best consequence & judging Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.”

Way Should Justice Judging Standards Consequence Election Senators Ideological

Author:John McCain

“Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which proved generally erroneous; while toleration led us invariably to form just conclusions, by judging from actions and not from opinions.”

Knows Action Form Language Causes Opinion Doubt Effects Ignorance Judging Consequence Conclusion Persecution Better Than You Toleration

Author:Charles James Fox

“Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?”

May Christian Judging Kings Consequence

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly, we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but on how they were made.”

Needs Firsts Made Matter Decision Results Judging Consequence Thirds Despite Certainty Uncertainty Probability Weighing

Author:Robert Rubin

“We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.”

Feels Long Reason Action President Term Judging Citizens Consequence Negative Impact Campaigns Long Term Presidency Comeback Public Trust

Author:David Greenberg

“Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.”

People Ifs Way Looks Black Leader Careers Judging Findings Consequence Built Patterns African American Racist Black People Consistently Diminish Living On Degrade Dividing

Author:Joan Walsh Anglund

“When will rappers & skanks realize God's not the only one who gets to judge them on their actions? We do too. It's called CONSEQUENCES.”

Action Realizing Judging Consequence Rapper Skanks

Author:Nils Parker

“The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.”

“There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.”

Matter Humanity Choices Judging Eternal Messages Consequence Ultimate Offense

Author:Philip Yancey

“Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.”

“A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.”

“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

“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”

Ifs Love Friendship Judging Consequence Hatred Broken Heart Friendship Love

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.”

Trying Mean Action Judging Consequence Affected Utilitarian

Author:Peter Singer

“Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.”

Persons Said Action Found Successful Judging Consequence Kelsier

Book:Mistborn: The Final Empire

Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire

“All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.”

Mind Ideas Action Judging Morality Ethics Consequence Absurd Sisyphus Myth Of Sisyphus Actions Have Consequences

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.”

Love Needs Stories Law Simple Common Fantasy Fashion Judging Consequence Excellent Meat Historian Squares Spoil Incline

Book:The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne

Source: The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne

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