Harmful Quotes
276 quotes by 233 authors
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You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then…
— Rajneesh
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
— Agnes de Mille
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
— Seneca the Younger
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What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to…
— Baron d'Holbach
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It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or…
— Leland Ryken
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what…
— Saint Ambrose
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Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can…
— Srikumar Rao
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The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty…
— Charles Krauthammer
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All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.
— Vladimir Putin
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
— Jeff Merkley
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Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while…
— Tristram Stuart
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Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators,…
— Tristram Stuart
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While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind…
— Elliott Abrams
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
— Victor Papanek
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You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can…
— Thomas Piketty
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable…
— Adam Hamilton
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Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
— Robert Webb
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we…
— Dana Rohrabacher
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The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful…
— Kit Bond
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