#consequence

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#beginning #character #commission #consequence #doubts

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#anarchy #away #behind #civil #civil war

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built. ↗

— Gray Davis

#build #built #consequence #early #earnest

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#dangers #full #implies #incomprehensible #me

Consequences are unpitying. ↗

— George Eliot

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#asserting #become #carry #closer #consequence

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#consequence #dull #granted #rather #revolution

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#literacy #may #necessary #schizophrenia