Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors. – Chuck Hagel
As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn’t really live through the ’80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. – Barry Unsworth
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don’t, there are consequences you’ll have to deal with later in life. – Bryan Adams
I’m the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they’re not happy, I have to take the consequences. – Carlos Ghosn
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it – Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so – would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours’ wrath. – Barry Eichengreen
There are consequences if you act militarily, and there’s big consequences if you don’t act. – Dennis Ross
We must recognize that we’re all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious. – Gaylord Nelson
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. – Elizabeth Montagu
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That’s one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that’s unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise. – Guy Gavriel Kay
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences – and underestimated in the long run. – Francis Collins
Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. – Mitch Kapor
State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. – Noam Chomsky
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. – Norman Cousins
When I see something that’s wrong, I just speak and act first and I’ll take the consequences later. – Felix Dennis
Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way. – Marsha Sinetar
We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them. – Dan Webster
I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It’s antithetical to the Hippocratic oath. – Chris Kilham
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities. – Eric Hobsbawm
There’s something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don’t always consider the consequences. – Gene Luen Yang
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
History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas. – Elizabeth Coleman
In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn’t grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices. – Donna Rice
