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The Era of Procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to an end. In its place we are entering an era of consequences. Winston Churchill
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. Henry A Kissinger
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. Robert Green Ingersoll
I think it’s important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious – which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences. Robert Winston
Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Consequences are unpitying. George Eliot, Adam Bede
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. Aristotle
Wisdom consists in the anticipation of consequences. Norman Cousins
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things I am tempted to think there are no little things. Bruce Barton
I have lived under the threat of death for a year now … I alone should suffer the consequences for those choices. Breaking Bad s4e12: End Times, Walter to Skyler, AMC 2011
But when the scientists did this, the computers began to reveal something they hadn’t expected. One tiny change in their equations could have massive catastrophic consequences which they could never have predicted: it was called Chaos Theory. Chaos Theory had a very powerful influence in the West because it rose up at the very moment the Soviet Union was collapsing. And it seemed to explain why all attempts at revolution had led to disaster: the world was just too complex for human beings to change in a predictable way. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBC 2021
The English, and the Americans following them are paralysed by fear. That is what thwarts and distorts the Anglo-Saxon existence … Nothing could be more lovely and fearless than Chaucer. But already Shakespeare is morbid with fear, fear of consequences. That is the strange phenomenon of the English Renaissance: this mystic terror of the consequences, the consequences of action. D H Lawrence, Phoenix 1936