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“Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.”

Wells May Humanity Existence Moral Cost Survival Consequence Privilege Preserves Serving Warning Holocaust Frightening License

Book:Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

Source: Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

“The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.”

“A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.”

“Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.”

Needs Use Energy Cutting Security Wind Cost Consequence Increase Independence Global Warming National Security Incentives Solar Power Alternative Energy Energy Independence

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.”

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.”

Wisdom Today Politics Nations Economy Higher Cost Standards Consequence Labor Productivity Liberalism Trends Inflation Decrease Standards Of Living

Author:Robert S. Strauss

“The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.”

“Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months.”

Knows Said War Choices Blood Possibility Months Politician Cost Solutions Consequence Program Folks Iraq Nuclear Treasure Rejects Iran Diplomatic Pundits

Author:Barack Obama

“We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.”

“Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.”

Ends Action Military Cost Consequence Unintended Consequences Military Action

Author:Barack Obama

“To hold silence and to be silenced are two very different experiences. And so another theme emerges, that of light and shadow. When we share our voice, who benefits? When we withhold, who benefits? And what are the consequences and costs of both?”

Two Different Light Voice Silence Share Cost Benefits Shadow Consequence Theme Different Experiences Light And Shadow

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs May Reality Film Fighting Given Vision Millions Industry Cost Consequence Film Industry

Author:Cliff Martinez

“[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.”

Information Cost Benefits Consequence Doctrine Analysis Ignored Chapel Taj Mahal Sistine Chapel Mahal Cost Benefit Analysis

Author:Antonin Scalia

“We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.”

War Matter Philosophy Fighting Three Four Cost Consequence Europe Slavery Historical Slave Notion Jew Flying Tyranny Genocide Trusted Bowls Super Bowl No War

Author:Bill Whittle

“Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Problem Sin Creative Risk Willing Wind Circumstances Cost Consequence Irony Novelists Traffic Avoided Sentimentality

Author:Steve Erickson

“I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.”

Humans Social Cost Consequence Environmental Speed Radical Considering Transportation Rail Elimination High Speed High Speed Rail

Author:Noam Chomsky

“But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.”

People Ifs Care Millions Health Cost Consequence Increase Health Care Reports Margins

Author:Barack Obama

“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.”

Thinking Knows Important Stories Beautiful Film Choices Truth Is Cost Consequence Thirds Scary Cinema Theme Larry Andrew Motifs

Author:Keanu Reeves

“The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.”

Country States Used United Results United States Becoming Cost Consequence Negative Substance Illegal Marijuana Other Countries Negative Consequences

Author:George Soros

“One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.”

Life Needs Wisdom Pain Existence Accepting Darkness Knowing Doubt Conditions Dying Acceptance Cost Conflict Consequence Court Live Life Stubborn

Book:The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman

Source: The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman

“It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.”

Source: Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography

“The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.”

Children Dream Reality Turns Dark Wise Childhood Cost Essentials Consequence Characteristics Submit Defining Alienation Effortless Dreams And Reality Merging

Book:'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot