Polluted Quotes
103 quotes by 93 authors
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
— Saint Augustine
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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
— Aeschylus
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear…
— James Buchan
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
— Herman Bavinck
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Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the…
— Florence Nightingale
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air…
— Lester R. Brown
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Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests…
— David Suzuki
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When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you…
— Alanis Obomsawin
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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is…
— Renzo Piano
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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God…
— Andre Breton
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
— Edward Abbey
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Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all -…
— Bella Abzug
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Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming,…
— Will Tuttle
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow…
— Gautama Buddha
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No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness.…
— Gautama Buddha
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When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we…
— Bobby McLeod
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If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a…
— Dallin H. Oaks
Who Wrote These Polluted Quotes
93 authors contributed a total of 103 Polluted Quotes, led by these top contributors: