James Howard Kunstler Quotes

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.

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

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

I'm confident ITT will get what it deserves.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

People think that footballers just have a kick around with their mates. If they win, fine; if they don't, that's then fine, too. No pasa nada. No. You have an obligation and responsibility.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

If you do a mistake, I think you should get punished.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

Seeing somebody get what they earned is always a blessing.