Harmful Quotes

276 quotes by 233 authors

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
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. — Thomas Huxley
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. — King James I
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
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. — Thomas Mann
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
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
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
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
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
To read too many books is harmful. — Mao Zedong
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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