All 43 Uses of
consequence
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The consequences of your policies, Jim.†
Chpt 1.1 (definition 1) *
- I do feel, however, that our stockholders will be justified in expecting that those who bore the major responsibility for this venture should now bear the consequences of their negligence.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- You and I will always be there to save the country from the consequences of their actions.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- But she felt a vague apprehension which she could not define, the suggestion that there was something of grave consequence in whatever had made him say it, something dangerous to him.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- It cost me fifteen million dollars, but these fifteen million wiped out forty million belonging to Taggart Transcontinental, thirty-five million belonging to stockholders such as James Taggart and Orren Boyle, and hundreds of millions which will be lost in secondary consequences.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)
- Shall I beat you to it and name the consequences you were going to reproach me for?†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)
- As to further consequences ….†
Chpt 1.7 (definition 1)
- Stadler," she said, "I think I must tell you the meaning and the consequences of the fact that the construction of my branch line is being stopped.†
Chpt 1.7 (definition 1)
- I've chosen to do this-and I'll take all the consequences, including the full recognition of my choice.†
Chpt 1.9 (definition 1)
- Midas Mulligan had once been the richest and, consequently, the most denounced man in the country.
Chpt 1.10 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Did you know that he hit upon an idea of the most tremendous consequence?†
Chpt 1.10 (definition 1)
- He felt nothing about that paper or its possible consequences.†
Chpt 2.1 (definition 1)
- Because he had accepted his secret as guilt and promised himself to take its consequences-because he had granted that the right was with Lillian, and he was able to bear any form of damnation, but not able to deny the right when it was claimed of him-because he knew that the reason for his refusal to go, was the reason that gave him no right to refuse-because he heard the pleading cry in his mind: "Oh God, Lillian, anything but that party!" and he did not allow himself to beg for…†
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1)
- Whatever the consequences to Lillian, he would have confessed his adultery publicly, there and in that moment, rather than commit the unspeakable act of evading Dagny's eyes, of closing his face into a coward's blankness, of pretending to her that he did not know the nature of his action.†
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1)
- He felt that he had to hear it, no matter what the consequences.†
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1)
- Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences.†
Chpt 2.2 (definition 1)
- Do you realize the possible consequences of your stand?†
Chpt 2.4 (definition 1)
- "You saw the consequences of that" "Well, I don't know ….†
Chpt 2.4 (definition 1)
- "Miss Taggart," asked the man with the quavering voice, "would you say that there are any shippers of consequence left on the Rio Norte Line?"†
Chpt 2.5 (definition 2) *
- We're in for a very difficult time, and I would hate to see you suffer the consequences of his intransigent attitude.†
Chpt 2.5 (definition 1)
- Now you can see the consequences.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
- If you don't move my train at once, I'll let you guess the consequences.†
Chpt 2.7 (definition 1)
- The man in Bedroom A, Car No. 1, was a professor of sociology who taught that individual ability is of no consequence, that individual effort is futile, that an individual conscience is a useless luxury, that there is no individual mind or character or achievement, that everything is achieved collectively, and that it's masses that count, not men.†
Chpt 2.7 (definition 2)
- He did not examine the events in Colorado, he did not attempt to grasp their cause, he did not consider their consequences.†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 1)
- You broke our rules, so you'll have to take the consequences.†
Chpt 3.2 (definition 1)
- Do you wish to give any outsider any relief from the consequences of remaining outside?†
Chpt 3.2 (definition 1)
- "I forced my way here," she said quietly, "and I was to bear responsibility for the consequences.†
Chpt 3.2 (definition 1)
- Galt looked straight at him, then said slowly, in the tone of a man who knows all the consequences of his words, "I have decided, Francisco.†
Chpt 3.2 (definition 1)
- Then why aren't you letting me bear the consequences of mine?†
Chpt 3.2 (definition 1)
- It has long been conceded by all progressive thinkers that there are no entities, only actions-and no values, only consequences.†
Chpt 3.3 (definition 1)
- Now, ladies and gentlemen, you will see the action and the consequences of the Thompson Harmonizer.†
Chpt 3.3 (definition 1)
- I mean, have you suffered any permanent injuries or consequences?†
Chpt 3.3 (definition 1)
- I don't know, as to the permanent consequences.†
Chpt 3.3 (definition 1)
- In some terms different from hers, in some inconceivable manner of consciousness, they knew all that she could tell them, it was useless to prove to them the irrational horror of their course and of its consequences, both Meigs and Taggart knew itand the secret of their consciousness was the means by which they escaped the finality of their knowledge, "I see," she said quietly.†
Chpt 3.3 (definition 1)
- I had accepted, unwittingly and by default, the tenet that ideas were of no consequence to one's existence, to one's work, to reality, to this earth-as if ideas were not the province of reason, but of that mystic faith which I despised.†
Chpt 3.3 (definition 2)
- Don't tell me that it was your choice from the first and that you accepted all consequences, including tonight-it does not redeem the fact that it was I who had no better choice to offer you.†
Chpt 3.3 (definition 1)
- She waited for Jim to come home, that evening, and the thing that eroded any pain or indignation, was a feeling of her own detachment, as if it did not matter to her any longer, as if some action were required of her, but it made no difference what the action would be or the consequences.†
Chpt 3.4 (definition 1)
- But you always hear it said by a rotter about those who treat him as a rotter, those who don't feel any sympathy for the evil he's committed or for the pain he suffers as a consequence.†
Chpt 3.4 (definition 1)
- You know that you've broken me for once, that I broke the decision I had set for myself-but I did it consciously, knowing what it meant, I did it, not in blind surrender to the moment, but with full sight of the consequences and full willingness to bear them.†
Chpt 3.5 (definition 1)
- But you're not ready to quit and join meyou don't have to tell me, I know-and since I chose to take what I wanted before it was fully mine, I'll have to pay for it, I have no way of knowing how or when, I know only that if I give in to an enemy, I'll take the consequences.†
Chpt 3.5 (definition 1)
- The consequences are the same-and since we must judge actions by their consequences, the moral responsibility is the same….†
Chpt 3.8 (definition 1)
- The consequences are the same-and since we must judge actions by their consequences, the moral responsibility is the same….†
Chpt 3.8 (definition 1)
- If you refuse, you'll take the consequences.†
Chpt 3.10 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
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(2) (consequence as in: of little consequence) importance or relevance