Noxious Quotes
44 quotes by 40 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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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
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Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
— Walker Percy
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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
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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...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
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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
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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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