“To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.” LongSelfRunningDangerConsequenceNegativeSatisfactionNuclearLong RunsNegative Consequences Author:Dalai Lama
“A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.” WayWellsLongEnoughWould BeFacesValuesAttitudeConditionsPlanetsConsequenceEnvironmentalInevitablePermanentDoomEnough TimeWrong Attitude Author:T. S. Eliot
“Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.” IfsKnowsLongProblemCareConsequenceEnvironmentalStrangerTake CareAssumptionEnvironmental Problems Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977
“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.” WorldHumansLongSelfActionOpportunityLostTermInterestLossPoorAttitudeConflictConsequenceTradeMiseryInjusticeAidsLong TermCollectivesMutualWealthyMultipleLinkedShort TermSelf InterestDeprivationNational InterestsCollective ActionLost OpportunityMutual Interest Author:Tony Blair
“The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.” IfsLongKidsGamesStudentsKeysAdultsConsequenceDiscussionOutcomesAccountability Author:Albert Shanker
“If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.” IfsLongWould BeEconomicLong TimeConsequenceBasesIrresponsiblePatents Author:Fritz Machlup
“There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.” MenGivingHumansLongEndsEnoughActionPainTogetherSufferingPleasureEventsConsequenceChainsThis LifeProvidenceLinked Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition