Consequence Avoidance Quotes

Failure is almost never at the cost of those responsible.

If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.