We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy.
The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.
Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a c...
Any game where the goal is to build territory has to be beautiful. There may be phases of combat, but they are only means to an end, to allow your territory to survive. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the game of go is that it has been prove...
Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.
She had to be made to understand that she can’t go mouthing off about people and not expect consequences from it.
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.
