Quotes About Hurtful

Can't people do hurtful things, sometimes, and not even know they're doing them?

Anger is the most useless emotion, Henchick intoned, destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

No] social principle in the world is more foolish and dangerous than the rapidly rising notion that hurtful words and ideas are a form of violence or torture (e.g., "harassment") and that their perpetrators should be treated accordingly. That notion leads to the criminalization of criticism and the empowerment of authorities to regulate it. The new sensitivity is the old authoritarianism in disguise, and it is just as noxious.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.

vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful,

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.

The problem, as I see it, are the twin human creations of marriage and religion. It is marriage and religion that make copulation complex and hurtful. Marriage brings up notions of trust, cuckoldry and ownership, while religion makes certain kinds of intimacy sinful.

Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.

When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

I know for me, personally, when something is being said about me that isn't true, it's extremely hurtful and frustrating.

I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.

If someone says 'she' or 'he,' and it's unintentional, I can tell if it's coming from a place of love. It's only when someone misgenders me on purpose that it becomes hurtful.

It's kind of hurtful people associate Republican with being racist and the last thing I want from the very people I am fighting for.

I don't like how social media allows people to be so mean and say really hurtful, negative things. It's just not cool.

I once wrote about Don Imus that 'speech is free, but consequences are not.' I never want to be the exception to that rule, and I'm not sure any of us want to live in a world where hurtful things are hurled around without cost.

When athletes disrespect the flag and say things about their country that's not prideful, it really hurts me because of the situation that I've had to see my family go through.

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.

But marriage, it is said, would be too lightly entered into if it were so easily dissoluble. Why? People do not rush into endless partnerships because they are dissoluble at pleasure; on the contrary, such partnerships last just so long as they are beneficial to the contracting parties. In the same way, marriage would last exactly so long as its continuance was beneficial, and no longer: when it became hurtful, it would be dissolved.

I remember being really hurt by a relative of a good friend of mine when I mentioned that someone was a great wrestler - she said, 'What do you mean? How can you be great at wrestling?' I stopped them and said, 'Do you think that what I do takes no talent whatsoever?' She realized how hurtful those words were.

The"b" word and the "n" word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.

When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care.

Meanness at church sometimes exceeds anything that occurs in secular surroundings.