“In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.” MenGivingHumansLooksStatesActionIndividualGrowsPartyHappenedConditionsEasierCivilizationConsequenceWittyDinnerGreekPleasantDoomedEntitlementGood FoodDinner PartyAthensHuman Actions Author:Edith Hamilton
“Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.” LongHappensEarthTurnsTermHappenedEffectsConsequenceRegardSpeciesEnvironmentalLong TermMarsExtinctionVenusGreenhousesRunawayKnobs Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.” HappensUniverseSecretHappenedMinutesEventsMastersConsequenceConnectionsClintonAmnesia Author:Lance Morrow
“We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodomand Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.” PastPiecesHappenedHigherActivityPaperConsequenceEnvySellingErasEngagedBuyingImitationFeedingTradingPromotingPercentagesBuying And Selling Author:Charlie Munger
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” FirstsMotivationalHappinessFreedomAcceptingStepsHappenedAcceptanceConsequenceOvercomingAdversityMisfortunesFirst StepsElderlyOvercoming Hardship Author:William James