Rene Dubos Quotes

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

The snake will always bite back.

Everything is a circle. We are each responsible for our own actions. It will come back.

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

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

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Mess with nature and it will mess right back.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

No action is without its side effects.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.

People occasionally forgive, but nature never does..

If you are to strike, then make it painful, because you'll get the same blame either way.

One cannot move so fast so as to invite a backlash.

The toe you step on today may be connected to the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow.

Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

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

In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them.

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

Rebellion never goes without consequences.