#consequence

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences. ↗

— Lawrence Kohlberg

#expectations #family #group #his #immediate

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#consequences #curses #fellow #fellow citizens #law

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences. ↗

— Peter Tosh

#consequences #i #i am #only #politician

What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?' Beatty blew out the flame and lit it again. 'It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequence. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#fahrenheit- #age

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#better #brutal #consequences #making #perhaps

Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences. Cooper: No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you. Eliza: Yeah? Like what? Cooper: I lost you, that was my consequence. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#hurt #lost #love #responsibility #change

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

#catholics #consequence #during #extraordinary #ii

When anger rises, think of the consequences. ↗

— Confucius

#consequences #rises #think

What you do as president has consequences. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#president #you

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone. ↗

— Luke Ford

#am #business #communal #consequence #home