Harmful Quotes
276 quotes by 233 authors
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Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
— Thomas Huxley
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Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
— King James I
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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that…
— Peter Kropotkin
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
— Thomas Mann
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I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and…
— Joyce Meyer
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase…
— Jeanne Moreau
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You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people,…
— Roman Polanski
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has…
— Radhanath Swami
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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To read too many books is harmful.
— Mao Zedong
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Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same…
— Evgeny Morozov
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It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes…
— Charles F. Haanel
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I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful,…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves…
— Aristotle
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of…
— Karl Popper
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To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry…
— Angela Carter
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