Unintended Ramifications Quotes

I never said half the things I said.

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

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

We create monsters and then we can't control them.

Successful parties create their own monsters.

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

As well-intentioned as it might be, the Ali Act suffers from glaring flaws.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for hundreds of years.

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.