"Everything we do has consequences."

-- Dennis Potter

#Consequence Quotes

“Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.”
“You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.”
“It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.”
“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”
“Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.”
“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.”
“I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me with a look that whispers, Liar.”

Source : Norman MacCaig (2013). “The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig”, p.13, Birlinn
“Ignorance is a cure for nothing.”

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