Injurious Quotes

79 Injurious quotes by 62 unique authors

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life… — Charles Caleb Colton
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying… — Emma Goldman
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little… — Charles Darwin
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of… — Democritus
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me,… — George Muller
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. — John D. Rockefeller
I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else. — Mark Twain
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach… — Anne Bronte
Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably… — Charles Darwin
All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and… — Vladimir Lenin
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it… — Leonardo da Vinci
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion. — Unknown Author
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being… — Albert Einstein
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul… — Mark Twain
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism. — Denis Diderot
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor… — Charles Darwin
He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times… — Eugene Jarecki
It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances. — Richard Jefferies
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would… — William Falconer
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson
Love is injurious to health.. its causes depression! — Nikicorn
Life is small, Live it love is short, Flirt it anger is injurious, Dump it troubles are momentary, Face it memories are sweet, Cherish it… — Move-on07

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