Pope Francis Quotes

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever. None. And no matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it's natural or man-made, I always hope it gets worse.

I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences.

Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

On of the most important lessons of the Cold War was demonstrating that your friends will be protected and taken care of, that your enemies will be punished, and that those who refuse to support you will live to regret having done so.

People who challenge the United States and the international order [must] suffer enormous and unacceptable consequences.

I think it is in our interest to punish the first insult; because the first insult is the parent of many others.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are only consequences.

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.

If anybody has done bad things to me, then I must have done the same to them.

If they're acting like a dog, sometimes you're forced to treat people like dogs.

Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's an appalling piece of evidence. It shows our complacency, our lack of passion or inclination to be authentic and really understand our true values. It's consistently depressing, but nevertheless, we carry on.

Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both ... at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.