Corrodes Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. — B. C. Forbes
Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But… — Mark Twain
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies… — Blaise Cendrars
Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice. — Bill Keller
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. — Murray Bookchin
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed. — Wilder Penfield
Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for… — Margaret Visser
Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves. — Owen Feltham
A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant. — Ming-Dao Deng
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. — Eric Hoffer
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And… — Theodor Adorno
We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankindâ€™s belief that we can better ourselves. The… — Ai Weiwei
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered… — James Risen
Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us. — Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death. — D. A. Carson
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B. C. Forbes
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. — Milan Kundera
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful,… — Nick Hornby
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes. — Aidan Chambers

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