Noxious Quotes

44 quotes by 40 authors

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial… — Edmund Burke
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into… — Gloria Steinem
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,… — James Clerk Maxwell
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the… — Euripides
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have… — Mahatma Gandhi
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,… — Wendell Berry
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the… — William O. Douglas
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders… — Oliver Goldsmith
Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams… — Kristy Hinze
Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. — Thomas Jefferson
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence… — Andrew Solomon
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get… — Charles Spurgeon
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. — Napoleon Bonaparte
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious… — Ernestine Rose
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious… — Rene Dubos
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power.… — Martin Luther
I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits on the basis… — Clarence Thomas

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