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“The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.”

Humans Made Action Certain Choices Teach Consequence Undone Human Actions Actions Have Consequences

Book:Why History Matters: Life and Thought

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout all Christendom, and which has been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious.”

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.”

“There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country.”

Ifs Men Made Country Reason Law Order Courses Force Community Class Cases Cutting Taste Consequence Every Man Opposition Peace And Happiness

Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799

“By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.”

Way Made Form Found Term Can Do Moral Principles Mankind Mouths Consequence Altruism Sanctions Egoism Collectivism Degenerates Hybrid Hedonism

Author:Albert J. Nock

“The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.”

Men Should Made Important Loses Economic Consequence Sight Important Things Structure Workers Including Superiors Subordinates Personal Relationships Co Worker

Author:Vaclav Havel

“[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind.”

“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.”

Kind Made Done Bits Interest Theory Activity Discovery Consequence Including Composer Irrelevant Composing

Author:George Perle

“The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.”

Source: Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe

“The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.”

Knows World Years Has Beens Made Book Romance Literature Late Discovery Consequence Ancient Thanks Succession Imports

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.”

“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

“I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.”

Thinking Made Moments Action Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Our Lives Consequence Blame Mess Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

Book:Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of consequence, and why I have made a very clear and unwavering commitment to remain absolutely apolitical.”

Believe Made I Believe Clear Commitment Consequence I Believe In Contribution Collaboration Unwavering Apolitical

Author:Cliff Curtis

“On Earth Day I made a commitment to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. And I asked for a blueprint on how to achieve this goal. In concert with all other nations, we simply must halt global warming. It is a threat to our health, to our ecology, and to our economy. I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.”

“Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.”

Made Born Principles Creatures Consequence Outcomes New Life Inseparable Born Again Sanctification Regeneration

Book:Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.”

Kind Made Used Loss Effort Greater Findings Consequence England Saving Useless Grass Ecology Worms Corn New England Mischievous Blackbirds

Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader

“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.”

“Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.”

Made Seems Serious Consequence Ridiculous Frivolous

Author:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.”

Made Use Enemy Records Weakness Consequence Vote Conviction Congressman Timidity Use To Be

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.”

Way Heart Made Important Sometimes Passion Voice Mistake Path Failing My Heart Consequence Appreciate Chosen Plenty I've Learned Trusted Heed My Mistakes

Author:Steve Goodier

“While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices.”

Made Choices Consequence Tied

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“Most of us think that decisions such as where shall I live, with whom shall I partner, what shall I pick as a career for my life are the most important decisions that we make. But from the point of view of the universe these decisions are not that important. Within you, you have already made decisions about who you are, what the universe is and how you will relate to other people and how you will relate to the universe and these decisions are creating consequences in your life moment by moment.”

People Thinking Made Important Moments Universe Decision Views Careers Creating Picks Consequence Who You Are Point Of View Partners Relate Within You Important Decisions

Author:Gary Zukav

“I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.”

Knows Men Made Pride Consequence Importance Raises Humble Noses Thyself Be Humble Fleas

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:

“I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.”

Made Self Might Doubt Consequence Mathematics Evident Propositions

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.”

Trying Made War Enough Problem Effort Situation Majors Consequence Impact Climate Climate Change Arguing Civil War

Author:Chris Barrie

“In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.”

Giving Made Ends Sometimes Stories Beautiful Choices My Own Clear Focus Consequence Truthful Beautiful Things My Own Life

Author:Jaco Van Dormael

“Although it is important to examine the consequences of today's actions far into the future, it is important not to confuse far future actions with what is done today. The impact of emissions that are made after 2100 has no bearing on what the world should do for the next 30 or even 100 years.”

World Should Years Made Important Done Today Action Next Consequence Impact Emissions

Author:Robert O. Mendelsohn

“Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.”

Littles Made Facts Opportunity Lost Share Holy Lows Percent Consequence Sells Fortune Disaster Acquire Bargains Corrections Holy Grail Net Worth

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.”

Persons Made Moments Realizing Mistake Consequence Realization Made A Mistake Poignancy

Author:Dana Spiotta

“I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.”

Thinking Mind Believe Made Self Purpose I Believe Special Consequence Add

Author:Antonio Damasio

“I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.”

Should Years Made Suffering Choices Consequence Threat Inevitable Insightful Listen To Me Prolonging Suffering The Consequences

Author:Walter White

“Now that we've made that decision, everyone is thinking about the practical consequences and I think Theresa May could be the most challenging prime ministership since the Suez Crisis, possibly since the Second World War.”

Thinking World May Made War Challenges Decision Consequence Crisis Practicals War Of The Worlds Prime Second World War Theresa

Author:Jeremy Hunt

“Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of the consequences of the legal decisions being made by the Supreme Court.”

Made Values Justice Decision Models Consequence Court Supreme Practicals Supreme Court Supreme Court Justice Court Justice Jurists Sandra Day O Connor

Author:Patrick Leahy

“The consequences of man-made climate change are real and very signiﬁcant.”

Men Made Real Consequence Climate Climate Change Cant

Author:Jeff Orlowski

“A child born today will experience an increase to sea level of about three to six feet. The rate of change is so remarkable and so dramatic. We are already seeing the consequences of man-made climate change.”

Men Children Made Today Three Born Levels Seeing Sea Feet Six Consequence Increase Climate Rate Climate Change Dramatic Remarkable Rate Of Change

Author:Jeff Orlowski

“Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue.”

Made Deals Talking Issues Politician Consequence Concerned Instance Catholicism Not Talking

Author:Barack Obama

“Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.”

People Made Problem Deals Economy Economic Consequence Program Crisis Greek Greece Austerity Economic Crisis

Author:Alexis Tsipras

“From living in my own little secluded hell in this world, oblivious to the world around me, I found sanctuary with the bears, where I had made peace with myself of the consequences I have allowed while living in society.”

World Littles Made Found My Own Hell This World Bears Consequence Sanctuary Oblivious Secluded

Author:Timothy Treadwell

“Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.”

Men Humans Wells Made States Natural Rights Duty Protect Consequence Crisis Human Rights Population Humanitarian Graves Primaries Violation Violation Of Human Rights

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.”

Littles Made Action Earth Life Is Water Mountain Speech Ocean Consequence Series Details Tiny Endless Reaching Little Things Grain Drop Of Water

Author:Sivananda

“The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.”

Needs Made Care Father Air Clothes Bird Consequence Concern Gods Will Grass Heavenly Easter Heavenly Father Lilies Splendor Funny Easter Christian Easter Happy Easter Kids Easter

Author:Charles Stanley

“I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.”

Made Faces Decision Consequence

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops of causal flow. These phenomenon are just as real as atoms - perhaps even more real. If anything, the entire universe is actually made from events, of which atoms are merely some of the consequences.”

Ifs Made Real Life Is Universe Causes Effects Events Consequence Built Flow Cycles Phenomenon Atoms Cause And Effect Loops

Book:Creation: Life and How to Make It

Source: Creation: Life and How to Make It

“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.”

Long Made Two Hard Joy Night Sleep Taken Too Much Glory Consequence Punishment Drunk Clock Laziness Hangover Travels With Charley

Author:John Steinbeck

“The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.”

“Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.”

Long Made Ends Would Be Saws Events Consequence Reviews Coincidence Prey Columns

Book:Not So Deep as a Well

Source: Not So Deep as a Well

“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”

Ifs Writing Littles Long Made Matter Mistake Effects Produce Reader Consequence Details Dramatic What Matters Accuracy Bad Mistake

Book:The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic

Source: The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic

“I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart. --Antonio”

Humans Heart Made Ends Teach Happened Consequence Overcoming Tragedy Finals Defeat Tragic Human Heart Antonio Ultima

Author:Rudolfo Anaya