Unwholesome Quotes

32 Unwholesome quotes by 30 unique authors

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought… — Woodrow Wilson
I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome,… — Benjamin Franklin
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there… — John Ruskin
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view… — Bertrand Russell
Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones — Gautama Buddha
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
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward… — Dogen
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese… — Bernardino Ramazzini
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks… — Edward Augustus Bowles
There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their… — Khalil Gibran
Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded… — Eliza Acton
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other… — Benjamin Franklin
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… — Thomas Carlyle
I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. — Steve Almond
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off… — Vash Young
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we… — Alexander Pope
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients… — Charles Caleb Colton
The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,… — William Hazlitt
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat,… — Nhat Hanh
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people. — Charles Lamb
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating. — William Strunk, Jr.
Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot… — J.R. Miller

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