Consequence Quotes

“When you play a game of chess, it is like you are building a bridge. If you make one bad move, the whole bridge collapses.”

“The second law of ecology is that everything must go somewhere.”

“When you live by the gun, you die by the gun.”

“Crime is the easiest thing in the world to commit. But it's the hardest thing in the world to get away with.”

“The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be a consequence.”

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”

“Climate change is the side effect of a side effect of a side effect.”

“Magic is a two-edged sword. You must be prepared to be cut by it.”

“The fourth law of ecology is that there is no such thing as a free lunch.”

“For more than 45 years, in fact, I’ve been in a kind of internal exile.”

“All subsidies are disastrous. But some are more disastrous than others.”

“The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.”

“No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done.”

“Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.”

“After a certain age, you're just sort of living with the consequences of things you've done.”

“The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.”

“There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.”

“In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we foresee them.”

“Every solution breeds new problems.”

“The solution to a problem changes the problem.”