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Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Holly Lisle
Motivational, Actions Have Consequences, Knowing Who You Are
Holly Lisle (1992). “Fire in the Mist”, Baen Books

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

Gerda Lerner
Actions Have Consequences, Choices, Undone
Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

Gerda Lerner
Knowledge, Past, Actions Have Consequences
Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

Stephen Dobyns
Ignorance, Responsibility, Actions Have Consequences

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

Kenneth L. Woodward
Actions Have Consequences, Guilt, Reconciliation

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.

Malcolm Bradbury
Fate, Actions Have Consequences, People
Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

Actions have consequences.

Morton Blackwell
Actions Have Consequences, Action, Consequence

No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little'.

Michael Grant
Believe, Thinking, Actions Have Consequences

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Albert Camus
Actions Have Consequences, Ideas, Judging
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

China Mieville
Mean, Reality, Actions Have Consequences

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