Consequence Quotes - Page 40

• Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.

  Diane F. Halpern

  Memories, Mistake, Decision

  Diane F. Halpern (2002). “Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, 4th Edition”, p.340, Routledge

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• When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Punishment, Focus

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• We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Nonviolent Communication, Enormous

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• I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Running, Communication, Thinking

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• If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

  Aristotle

  Statistics, Assuming, Found

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Successful, Goal, Mind

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• The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that
  it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions
  are positive rather than negative.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Effort, Negative, Action

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2013). “A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics”, p.151, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

  Ayn Rand

  Lying, Men, Justice

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.78, Penguin

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• In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, People, Decision

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.129, Basic Books

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• Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

  Gustave de Molinari

  War, Liberty, Natural

  Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.59, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

  Norbert Wiener

  Technology, Slave Labor, Machines

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. … The Bible [is] right every time … and that’s why AIDS has been something they haven’t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for. … And that goes to what God says, ‘Hey you’re going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.’

  David Barton

  Vaccines, Hey, Body

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• Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

  Judith Butler

  Facts, Kind, Imitation

  "Inside/out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories". Book edited by Diana Fuss, 1991.

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• I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

  Irving Kristol

  Years, Important, Action

  "On the Democratic Idea in America". Book by Irving Kristol, 1972.

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• For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

  Arthur Machen

  Importance, Introduction

  Arthur Machen (2014). “Spirits of Battle: featuring The Bowmen”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

  Kent Conrad

  Government, Debt, Way

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• If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Needs, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  Warren E. Burger

  Judgement, Trials, Poverty

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• The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

  Brian Tracy

  Desire, May, Action

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• We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Gun, Sight, People

  "US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot as Six Die in Arizona Massacre" by Ben Quinn and Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. January 09, 2011.

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• When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "With Borrowed Eyes: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with David Sterritt, www.filmcomment.com. July/August 2000.

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• America is not big enough to shake her fist in the face of a holy God and get away with it, and as I read this I want to explain something. I'm going to read this and then I want to explain something. As America has permitted homosexuality to establish itself as an alternate lifestyle, it is also reeling from the frightening spread of sexually transmitted disease. Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations.

  Reggie White

  America, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Want

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• In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

  Arthur Koestler

  Errors, Political, Single Life

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Timing, Failing, Currency

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• You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

  Robert B. Parker

  Deals, Do The Best

  Robert B. Parker (2013). “A Catskill Eagle (A Spenser Mystery)”, p.171, Hachette UK

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