Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction

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

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

The effect of Welfarism on freedom will be felt later on - after its beneficiaries have become its victims, after dependence on government has turned into bondage and it is too late to unlock the jail.

[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.

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.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Every problem solved is a problem made.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.