Quotes About Harmful

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

They're stupid and mean, and that makes them dangerous.

This lost, loose feeling that no consequence could be so harmful as the sense of staying where you were, or of being who you are.

I know what you are going to say: sticks, stones, and broken bones, but words can kick you in the gut. They wriggle underneath your skin and start to itch. They set their hooks into you and pull. Words accumulate like a cancer, and then they eat away at you until there is nothing left. And once they are let loose there really is no taking them back.

This work is part of what is now a huge literature on the often harmful effects of rumination and explicit analysis on people's ability to experience and identify pleasure.

Jealousy is a deficiency, of your mind that damages only you, no one else.

Rude, violent and bitter conduct, discussion, talk, and speech only humiliate and harm oneself, not one else.

Mistaken about good and bad, unwittingly taken in by things that are ultimately harmful for us, we suffer from something akin to a perceptual illusion, only much deeper and more problematic. It's like the Müller-Lyer illusion: we can't help experiencing the lines as of different length, even if we know they're not.

Anything that name ends with XIN is likely to contain TOXIN-a harmful substance for anybody.

Fictitious friends called frienemies are more poisonous to a person than the ferocious or venomous animals around him or her.

Worry anxiety, therefore, is rightly characterized in Scripture as a lack of trust in God and a failure to fully understand His plan and provision for us. It is clearly harmful to us and, therefore, displeasing to God.

Something might be true, even if it is also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree; indeed, it might be part of the essential nature of existence that to understand it completely would lead to our own destruction.

Something might be true, even if it were also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree; indeed, it might be part of the essential nature of existence that to understand it completely would lead to our own destruction. The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much truth he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he 'needs' to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Our young people should not be put at risk and subject to unscientific and harmful actions such as 'conversion therapy.'

Any system that is unjustly harmful to life needs to be destroyed and replaced with what is just.

Government: A good government shouldn't control its citizens, but it should intervene when it's citizens are making harmful decisions. And when the government is making harmful decisions it's citizens should intervene. There needs to be some sort of safeguard that keeps these two from harming one another.

Anger and the sorrow it produces are far more harmful than the things which make us angry.

If there were anything harmful on the other side of death, they would have made sure that the ability to avoid it was within you.

I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.

We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. But as Mr. Erskine also pointed out, Eros with his bow and arrows is not the only blind god. Justitia is the other one. Clumsy blind gods with edged weapons: Justicia totes a sword, which, coupled with her blindfold, is a pretty good recipe for cutting yourself.

I did believe, at first, that I wanted only justice. I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. But as Mr. Erskine also pointed out, Eros with his bow and arrows is not the only blind god. Justitia is the other one. Clumsy blind gods with edged weapons: Justitia totes a sword, which, coupled with her blindfold, is a pretty good recipe for cutting yourself.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.