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Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. -- Douglas Haig
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. -- Wole Soyinka
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. -- Frances Wright
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. -- Etty Hillesum
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. -- Bruce Henderson
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. -- William Kingdon Clifford
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges. -- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is. -- James Stephens
The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation. -- Piers Corbyn
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. -- Joseph Rotblat
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. -- Dennis Ritchie
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. -- Wilhelm Wundt
The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy. -- Jill Lepore
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort. -- William Banting
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. -- Eldridge Cleaver
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. -- Frances Wright
Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency. -- Thomas Jefferson
The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. -- Erasmus Darwin
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. -- Douglas Haig
The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products. -- Thomas Malthus
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love. -- Antony Flew
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others. -- Will Tuttle
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life. -- Carl Jung
Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely wan to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behaviour will flow automatically. Believe it and you will see it. -- Wayne Dyer
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges. -- Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer. -- Walter J Chantry
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action. -- Swami Vivekananda
If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare. -- William Wilberforce
Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly and secretively. The outcome, though, is the same. -- Tim Field
The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life -- Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty? -- Patrick Henry
There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them and protects them from being discussed or criticized. -- John Stuart Mill
The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows. -- John Stuart Mill
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love. -- John Stott
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate -- Dennis Ritchie
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. -- Thomas Hartwell Horne
Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether. -- Charles F. Haanel

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