The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor.
Bryant McGillTags: generations cause-and-effect benefits
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts will do the same thing in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in a path or a breath caught at the sight of a pretty girl or a finger nail nicked in the garden soil.
John SteinbeckTags: history direction cause-and-effect
Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.
J.E.B. SpredemannTags: choice consequences choices choices-and-consequences cause-and-effect
I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!
Israelmore AyivorTags: reflect friends people selfish self smile smiling reflection happy sad bad actions self-image food-for-thought glass cry image myself me habit other-people disadvantage joyful mirror behaviour cause-and-effect angry who-you-are i frown human-behaviour see-yourself israelmore-ayivor do-good-do-it-to-yourself look-to-yourself plane-mirror self-gain your-image your-self-image
If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: smile cause responses echo cause-and-effect reactions richelle rebound richelle-goodrich boomerang reciprocate
The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.
Corliss LamontTags: science determinism nature will laws-of-nature neuroscience brains cause-and-effect lack-of-free-will causally-determined no-free-will
This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. 'Forgive us our sins' means "Let us continue in our iniquity." It is one of the most pernicious of doctrines, and one of the most fruitful sources of immorality. It has been the chief cause of making Christian nations the most immoral of nations. In teaching this doctrine Christ committed a sin for which his death did not atone, and which can never be forgiven. There is no forgiveness of sin. Every cause has its effect; every sinner must suffer the consequences of his sins.
John E. RemsburgTags: death dogma forgiveness suffer creed consequences new-testament doctrine cause-and-effect forgiven iniquity pernicious biblical-criticism
. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now and not now, we can make the connection. And there morality enters in. Responsibility. To say that a good end will follow from a bad means is just like saying that if I pull a rope on this pulley it will lift the weight on that one. To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
If time and reason are functions of each other, if we are creatures of time, then we had better know it, and try to make the best of it. To act responsibly.
Tags: ethics responsibility cause-and-effect
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
Henry MelvillTags: life selflessness live connection sympathy selfishness action invisible generosity results cause-and-effect altruism fiber connected
Somedays you're the cue ball, somedays you are the eight ball
PabloTags: wisdom life truth inspiration procrastination motivation consequences discipline cause-and-effect pool
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