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“Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man鈥檚 Search for Meaning

“It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth.”
― David Cecil, Library Looking-Glass : A Personal Anthology

“If we are to remain relevant and not delegate our strategic decision-making to machines, we must create innovative social and economic ecosystems that become stronger under stress and through shocks.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals.”
― Hannah Arendt

“But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek ways by which he can avoid doing the thing you are trying to force upon him. A man with malaria parasites in his blood is a danger to his companions. To kill all the parasites, he was then required to continue doses of quinine a week or ten days after his fever. When the convalescing men were given their daily dose of quinine they would manage to throw their tablets out of the dispensary window. The old turkey-gobbler pet of the hospital gobbled up all the tablets he could find. He became so dissipated he finally developed a species of blindness caused by too much quinine. I cannot vouch for this, but I was often twitted with this story as an illustration of how the men were treating prophylactic quinine.”
― William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama

“In addition to the smells of mince and pumpkin pies, the Sage and onions of turkey stuffing, another aroma floated in the air, the very essence of Santa Claus.
Years later, when I was grown up, I still remembered that marvelous fragrance and recognized it as Scotch whisky.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Gawgon and the Boy

“Thy designs are a bottomless pit. How can I descend into this pit to examine it? Thou lookest thousands of years into the future and then Thou judgest. What today seems an injustice to man's minute brain becomes, thousands of years hence, the mother of man's salvation. If what today we term injustice did not exist, perhaps true justice would never come to mankind.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis

“Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!”
― Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness

“Most things are never meant.

- Going, Going”
― Philip Larkin, High Windows

“Love is often called 鈥榓 beautiful thing鈥�, yet it leaves ugly scars behind.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Let's be aware of the impact we have, in all ways, and not just those ways we wish.”
― Donald T Iannone, D.Div.

“[W]e all know that sometimes people mean well but cause harm nonetheless鈥攐ut of ignorance, out of carelessness, out of deeply ingrained ways of thinking they haven't examined, out of an emotional reaction that got the better of their lofty intentions, or ... well, the list goes on.”
― Danya Ruttenberg, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

“from The Ninja and The Diplomat (coming in September 2015)--As an unintended but ineluctable consequence of the one child policy, he and his wife, like most of his generation and those succeeding, consisted of only children; hence his family included no aunts or uncles, no cousins, and no nieces or nephews. The Chinese family had lost an immeasurable dimension of richness.”
― Hock G. Tjoa

“The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.”
― eric weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

“[Standard social science approaches to analyzing conflict] too often miss the unintended consequences of well-intentioned acts. Dietrich Dorner is a German psychologist who studies leadership and decision making in complex environments. He has suggested that there is more harm done in today's world by well-intentioned people trying to do good, who are unaware of the unintended consequences of their actions, than by people actually trying to cause harm. Remarkably, this may well be true.”
― Peter T. Coleman, The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts

“I hope you INTENTIONALLY create memories and UNINTENTIONALLY allow memories to be born by intentionally leaving a space open for spontaneity.”
― Richie Norton

“As part of a move to make a continent look better, money was given to the small town to improve itself, and they built a holding pool for the...fishing boats that would still work in the winter when it was too rough...The holding pool filled with ducks and they shat everywhere. There were hundreds of ducks....
Given the way they have to have sex, it's remarkable that there are *any* ducks. ... The male more or less drowns the female, who has to focus hard on staying afloat, and they both have to deal with wings and beaks and water and feathers, and it looks nasty, and they still have sex. So there were a great many ducks. And they all shat everywhere.”
― Cynan Jones, The Long Dry

“Imagine if every time you said the word 'fire' you would unconsciously summon one. What would your life be like then, eh?”
― Daniel Thorman, Mayhem at the Mill

“The biggest danger during the Phoney War was not bombs but the un- intended consequences of the blackout, particularly during the long win- ter nights, when it became dark well before the time that many people had begun to return home from work. Streetlights were extinguished and cars were only allowed to use their sidelights, a recipe for motor accidents. Even though there were many fewer cars being driven, the number of road deaths increased by about a third from a year earlier, to four thousand. December 1940 was particularly dangerous in London, where pedestrian deaths in- creased eightfold compared with earlier years. There were more and more children back in London, even though many schools remained closed; by late spring 1940, virtually all of those who had evacuated in September had returned. People who still brought their gas masks with them to work could become objects of scorn and ridicule when spotted on the streets by bored, less than well-behaved children (Price 2000, 17; Ziegler 1995, 56鈥�68, 102).”
― Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899鈥�1950

“A promise to move mountains yields valleys of unintended scree.”
― Trent Lindsey, Those Wyrd and Wonderful

“As we confront the challenges of an increasingly interconnected world, the imperative to seek multiple perspectives becomes ever more pressing. The human capacity for reasoning empowers us as problem solvers, yet it also renders us susceptible to shortsightedness. We鈥檙e full of cognitive biases and they often blind us to potential loopholes and weaknesses in our plans. However, lurking behind every solution lies the lurking threat of the cobra effect, poised to strike back with unintended consequences. By soliciting input from a range of perspectives, we gain a more holistic understanding of the system at play, enabling us to navigate potential pitfalls with greater foresight and agility.”
― Carson Anekeya

“In an economy with many government interventions, skilled people opt for activities that redistribute income rather than activities that create growth.”
― William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

“What I saw in Washington that October were a lot of Americans who were genuinely dismayed by what their country was doing in Vietnam; I also saw a lot of other Americans who were self-righteously attracted to a most childish notion of heroism--namely, their own. They thought that to force a confrontation with soldiers and policemen would not only elevate themselves to the status of heroes; this confrontation, they deluded themselves, would expose the corruption of the political and social system they loftily thought they opposed. These would be the same people who, in later years, would credit the antiwar "movement" with eventually getting the U.S. armed forces out of Vietnam. That was not what I saw. I saw that the righteousness of many of these demonstrators simply helped to harden the attitudes of those poor fools who *supported* the war. That is what makes what Ronald Reagan would say--two years later, in 1969--so ludicrous: that the Vietnam protests were "giving aid and comfort to the enemy." What I saw was that the protests did worse than that; they gave aid and comfort to the idiots who endorsed the war--they made that war last *longer*. That's what *I* saw. I took my missing finger home to New Hampshire, and let Hester get arrested in Washington by herself; she was not exactly alone--there were mass arrests that October.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Changes in ecological systems create unpredictable second-order consequences.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World