Quotes About Erosion

Moral sentiments derive from empathy, and moral reflections take thinking and focus. One cost of the frenetic stream of distractions we face today, some fear, is an erosion of empathy and compassion.19 The more distracted we are, the less we can exhibit attunement and caring.

Os sentimentos morais derivam da empatia e as reflexões morais implicam tempo e foco. Um dos custos do frenético fluxo das distrações que enfrentamos hoje em dia, receiam alguns, é uma erosão da empatia e da compaixão. Quanto mais distraídos andamos, menos conseguimos cultivar formas mais subtis de empatia e compaixão.

Water's power is rooted in its ability to conquer all on its path - often not by destroying things in an instant but by patiently eroding the land over time.

We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

meaning is born out of the erosion of words, significations are born out of the erosion of signs

Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if the very foundation of this great country, which is liberty, is eroding right before our eyes.

Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.

Time erodes both steel and stone.' So Ovid had written in the months before his death.

The easiest way to destroy a country is from within.

Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.

Right away, death is word-eating.

Terrorism is, of course, a globalist's dream. It leads to the erosion of individual freedoms, evolving police states, exploitation of the transparency of borders, and the consequent erosion of national sovereignties. In fact, the suppression of civil liberties unquestionably will be an

Maybe it's been a gradual thing over the years, the gentle eroding of their love, like seawater over a pebble... She can't even pinpoint the exact moment it changed. But it seems the stronger she gets the weaker their relationship becomes

Lies corrode like rust.

Every underground scene dies a long slow death as the tourists close in, until nothing's left but posers ogling each other over the bleached remains. If

Time either erodes us, or it silts us up. There is no cast iron shore.

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

As trust in institutions erodes, the basic assumptions of fairness, shared values, and equal opportunity traditionally upheld by 'the system' are no longer taken for granted.

I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the one I have known. Values have shifted. Basic decency and respect for good things are eroding.

Time is a diminishing factor

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.