“When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.” IfsWayWritingPastProcessPayCommitmentConsequencePaidPreparedInterfereWriting ProcessLiving My LifeI Live My Life Author:Taslima Nasrin
“NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.” WayKindNaturalRiskConsequenceInnovationCombinationBureaucracyMonopolyNasaAversionNatural Consequences Author:Burt Rutan
“Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order” WayOrderJusticeDecisionExerciseShapesConsequenceFlowDirectGuaranteesInterpretationDefiningCrowJudicialContemplativeJim CrowIncompatibility Author:William J. Brennan
“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
“Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.” WayShouldJusticeJudgingStandardsConsequenceElectionSenatorsIdeological Author:John McCain