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“If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded and controlled by a U.S. Government that siphoned off their resources. You don't have to be an English major to read the writing on the wall; I am in here as a warning to others, just like those men who are in Guantanamo are a warning to others - if you stand up to us you face these same consequences.”

“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.”

People Men Firsts Facts Earth Used White Written Feet Mankind Behavior Consequence Concern Function Environmental Extremes Contact Boat Indian White Man Elders First Contact

Author:Leonard Peltier

“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

“There are certain indicia of marriage - certain legal and social consequences and certain legitimacy - which if given to some relationship other than marriage between a man and a woman tend to degrade if not destroy the institution that's been honored over so many thousands of years.”

Ifs Men Years Certain Given Social Consequence Institutions Honored Degrade Legitimacy

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When I was on the road and saw some people do it, I was afraid I would really like it. I was afraid of the consequences.”

People Men Years Saws Consequence Scared Music Business Coke

Author:Kenny Chesney

“We are now enjoying the liberation that comes with not having to be organization men and women, and that's fabulous. But there are new social consequences here of which we need to be aware, and the sale of the self and what that entails for the rest of our lives is quite sobering.”

Men Enjoy Men And Women Consequence Liberation Fabulous

Author:Robert Reich

“I think that a lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out. But I think there is a consequence to that. I think us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.”

Thinking Men Film Smart Consequence Avoiding Enjoyable Workaholic Good Woman

Author:Joan Cusack

“One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to change his life. We are propelled by the ideology of the self-made man: we work more, we consume more and in the end we consume ourselves. The consequences are burnout, bulimia and other lifestyle diseases.”

Men Believe Capitalism Consequence Slave Lifestyle Ideology Bulimia

Author:Renata Salecl

“One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.”

Thinking Men Mind Mistake Teach Worst Military Training Consequence Embarrassment Astronaut Fireman

Author:David Saint-Jacques

“The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the north of India, where there's horrendous poverty. The number of girls in many of these places is so low that it has social consequences. You get young men without jobs and without women, and this leads to chaos and political danger. But the south of India is very different.”

Men Different Country Political Girl Boys Poverty Worst Danger Consequence Chaos

Author:Barbara Crossette

“The idea of equality is misunderstood. I wouldn't ever argue that everyone is the same, but that differences should not be hierarchical. Attitudes and expectations have been imposed on both men and women. For instance, men had very little to do with the raising of their children before the women's movement. The women's movement has freed men to become more active as fathers. We're living in a period of transition, but change can be much slower than we want, with unintended consequences, and can also be happening without our seeing it.”

Men Children Father Attitude Expectations Men And Women Consequence Arguing Misunderstood

Author:Lynne Tillman

“The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.”

People Men World Black Community Justice Risk Modern Consequence Slavery Prison African American Prisoner Host Justice System Criminal Justice

Author:Randall Robinson

“Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.”

Men Consequence Calm Heat Excess Quantity Juice Irritated Poppies

Book:Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

“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

“The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.”

Men Doe Law Consequence Regard Cease Be A Man Jurors

Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man's salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race.”

“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”

Ifs Men Children Opportunity Social Process Men And Women Consequence Equality Equality Of People Equality Of Opportunity Social Equality Equality Of Man

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.”

Men World May Form Purpose Masters Consequence Plenty Servant

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.”

Men World Running Feet Men And Women Consequence Rivers Bridges Looking Back Crossings Loose Change

Book:The Club Dumas: A Novel

Source: The Club Dumas: A Novel

“I’m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.”

Men Firsts Action Fall Consequence Falling In Love Definitions Instant Consideration Entering Reckless

Book:Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval." No Greater Love has any man.”

Men Doe Ideas Different Evil Christ Enemy Greater Changed Victory Fit Consequence Bills Forgiving Sake Details Noble Scripture Approval Equations Admirable Jericho God Forgives Greater Love

Author:Ted Dekker

“To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”

Knows Men Believe Real Action Consequence Connected Believe In You Real Men Actions Have Consequences

Author:Sister Souljah

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

Men Giving Enough Young Pride Consequence Prejudice Handsome Tolerable Young Ladies Darcy Handsome Men Pride And Prejudice Pride Slighted Pride And Prejudice Book

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.”

Men Pain Stupid Consequence Anesthesia Wrong Man

Book:Saving Fish From Drowning

Source: Saving Fish From Drowning

“He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.”

Knows Men World Believe Said Order Blood This World Consequence

Book:The Border Trilogy

Source: The Border Trilogy

“What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”

Men Way Doe Universe Consequence Weak Unseen Helplessness Notice Me

Book:The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

Men Littles One Day Kissing Consequence Romantic Breaths Breathe Lost Love Romantic Love Kissing You Romantic Kiss Kissing Her Romantic Kissing Cute Kiss Cute Kissing Shadowfever

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite”

Source: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln

“Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?” Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. “It was like being owned.” Some women like that.” Not me.” Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.” I doubt it. I couldn’t breathe with him kissing me.” One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.” Right, and one day my prince might come.” I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”

Men May Littles Hands Might Memories Doubt Depends One Day Kissing Mouths Consequence Breaths Breathe Lanes Good Kisser

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it.”

“Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking.”

Thinking Men Way Looks Real Soul Ends Reason Lasts Young Courses Simple Forever Danger Consequence Casts Reason Why Young Man Awake Consideration Cast Away Thoughtlessness

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.”

Men Action Consequence

Book:The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

“It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.”

“I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.”

Men Trying Might Earth Lying Half Lovers Succeed Ten Skills Limits Consequence Surprise Lips Clouds Mortals Remembered Throat Caress Surprise Me Guesswork Good Lovers

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?”

Men Love Giving Important Ends Age Ambition Consequence Seasons Bounds Dear Passages Urgency Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.”

Men Feels Felt Consequence Absurd Interfere Swollen

Author:Alice Munro

“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.”

“He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.”

Ifs Men Care Action My Own Duty Protect Consequence Responsible Prepared Burden Take Care Being Responsible Brian

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Real Matter Age Wanted Responsibility Fire Mystery Goes On Draws Consequence Scientist No Matter What Lifetime Lovely Let It Go Molecules Friction Real Beauty

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?”

“There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.”

Knows Men Soul Happens Evil Black Break Path Shadow Consequence Strikes Zone Passages Now And Then Reckoning

Book:THE CTHULHU MYTHOS TALES äóñ The Call of Cthulhu, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow out of Time, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Colour out of Space, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity

Source: THE CTHULHU MYTHOS TALES äóñ The Call of Cthulhu, The Haunter of the Dark, The Shadow out of Time, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Colour out of Space, The Thing on the Doorstepäó_: The Gateway into the Ancient Dimension of Terror Inhabited with Unspeakable Creatures, a Pantheon of Alien Extra-Dimensional Deities and Mythical Horrors Which Predate Humanity

“My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.”

Men Littles Said Life Is Consequence Bored Chickens Foxes Hunts Monotonous Monotonous Life Wheat Fields

Book:The Little Prince:

Source: The Little Prince:

“So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander of legions, a master of rare talent or ability. Granted, there have been heroes who fit those descriptions. But many men of great evil as well. Heed me. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them." (Beyonders - A World Without Heroes)”

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

“The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.”

Men Children Ability Weapons Consequence Ultimate Every Man Bombs Plague Vegas

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”

Men Consequence Infatuation Recklessness

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!”

Knows Men Matter Done Certain Stars Figures Planets Flower Like You Pride Consequence Red Add Busy Gentleman Mushrooms

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.”

Men May Mean Book Matter Language Deals Talking Streets Mines Masters My Friends Consequence Skins Horse Curiosity Strikes Mathematical Pigs Never Fear

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“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

“It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.”

Men Want Inspirational Found Consequence Luck Ill Neglect Application Providence Effectiveness Mismanagement

Book:Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct