T. J. Jackson Lears quotes

All history is the history of unintended consequences.
-- T. J. Jackson Lears

#Unintended Consequences #Consequence

Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.
-- T. J. Jackson Lears

#Challenges #Log Cabins #Fiction

We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
-- T. J. Jackson Lears

#Powerful #Light #Effort

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.