People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain.
~ Thomas Kaplan
We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.
~ Peter Benchley
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
~ Dalai Lama
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
~ Elizabeth Montagu
To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected.
~ Peter Singer
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
~ William Banting
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
~ Robert Dale Owen
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
~ Howard Berman
Everything has positive and negative consequences.
~ Farrah Fawcett
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
~ Marshall Mcluhan
The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.
~ Howard Rheingold
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
~ Norman Cousins
When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.
~ George Soros
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
~ Confucius
When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.
~ William Clay Ford
If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.
~ Matthew Desmond
