Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Consequence Quotes
Avoiding EvilConsequenceResisting TemptationWisdom Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
ChangeConsequenceExcessModeration Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
ConsequenceGuidanceMissing OpportunitiesRedemptionRegret Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
ConsequenceDeceptionIntentionsMoralitySelf Reflection Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
ConsequenceDeceptionTrust The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
ConsequenceHypocrisyInjusticeReputationSelf Reflection The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
ConsequenceImportanceStateStrategyWar The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
Black MarketConsequenceEconomic SystemsFree Market If you destroy a free market you create a black market.
CertaintyConsequencePredictionSufferingTruth The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
ConsequenceDiscriminationJusticeMoralityPrinciple No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
ConsequenceCynicismDependenceHuman NatureRealism Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
ConsequenceDestructionNeglectPerseveranceResilience By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
ConsequenceIronySacrifice The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
ComplainingConsequenceMoralityNegativity If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
AccountabilityConsequenceMoral ResponsibilityPower Dynamics Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
ConsequenceEmotional DetachmentIndifferenceInhumanityMoral Failure The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
ConsequenceFateMoralitySelf-ControlTemptation To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
AddictionConsequenceControlDangersIdealism Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
ConsequenceInactionInitiative My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
ConnectionConsequenceHuman NatureOnenessTechnology Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
ConsequenceIgnoranceNaivetyRisk So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
ConsequenceGrowthInactionResponsibilityUniversal Truth What you don't do can be a destructive force.
