consequence quotes

Aux colonies, l'infrastructure e¤  conomique est e¤  galement une superstructure. La cause est conse¤  quence: on est riche parce que blanc, on est blanc parce que riche. In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.

-Fanon, Frantz Omar
Les Damne¤  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.1,'Concerning Violence'.

   It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Review of Dr Lucas's Essay on Waters, 25 Nov.

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home.

-Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann)
Social Studies,'When Smoke Gets InYour Eyes†Shut Them'.

   The concentration camp isthefinal expressionof human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

-Miller, Arthur
  Interview in the Paris Review, Summer.

I am imbued with two deep impressions; the first, that science knows no country; the second, which seems to contradict the first, although it is really a direct consequence of it†that science is the highest personification of the nation. Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

-Pasteur, Louis
  Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene¤   Dubois).

We had better remain in union with England, even at the risk of becoming a subordinate species of Northumberland, as far as national consequence is concerned, than remedy ourselves by even hinting the possibility of a rupture. But there is no harm in wishing Scotland tohavejust somuchill-nature, according toher own proverb, as may keep her good-nature from being abused.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Letters of Malachi Malagrowther on the Proposed Change of Currency, letter1.

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