Harsh Consequences Quotes

Liberalism: To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed.

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.

When I was younger, I was thinking of ways I could get respect so people wouldn't bother me. I was down for whatever. I ended up going to juvenile hall, facing a good amount of time for a first-time offense.

Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

sometimes, when the sun shines, it scorches.

Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.

If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.

In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else—my reputation destroyed. I’d rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career.” - Al

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

'Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

This sport can be very unforgiving.

We must not be forced to agree to merciless peace terms.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.