Thomas More Quotes

The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

You can never really tell what your influences are.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Policy remedies tend to have unfortunate side effects.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

Good fortune has side effects.

Every choice that we makes creates consequences, consequences in the lives of others and we experience them in ourselves, those same consequences, every choice that we make. And by the way the choices that you might think are the most important are not always the most important.

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.

I'm always interested in a character who does something and doesn't understand why they've done it.

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn’t stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away. During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.

A problem solved is a problem caused.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate