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  • Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth. -- Dana Rohrabacher
  • It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. -- Kenneth Clarke
  • Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? -- Joseph Butler
  • In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions. -- Sharon Salzberg
  • We should not be making near-term decisions with long-term consequences without robustly debating these questions and fully considering the substantial and unpredictable risks of these actions. -- Niki Tsongas
  • Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. -- Bernard Baruch
  • Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks. -- Scott Walker
  • I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions. -- Joyce Brothers
  • When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior. -- David Perlmutter
  • Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. -- George Tenet
  • At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples. -- Edmund Phelps
  • The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. -- George W. Bush
  • As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action. -- John Olver
  • The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking. -- Ben Bernanke
  • Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. -- Frances Wright
  • It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions. -- Zadie Smith
  • One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival. -- Lane Garrison
  • Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome. -- Pete Hegseth
  • Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
  • Everything is the result of the Law of Action and Consequence but with the possibility that a superior law transcends an inferior law. -- Samael Aun Weor
  • I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking. -- Walter Cronkite
  • When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
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