Best 326 quotes in «damage quotes» category

Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.

[Our family] love our father's image because the only thing we received from him was love and affection. We recognize that our father made incredible damage outside of the home but we ask for reciprocity because the only thing he ever gave us within the household was love.

Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.

Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise.

Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana.

Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Somebody who eats twice as much factory-farmed products as he or she needs to is clearly doing twice as much damage to the planet. From a utilitarian point of view, that's twice as bad.

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

The big damages come if the climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases turns out to be high causing greater global warming than current projections. Then it's not a bullet headed at us, but a thermonuclear warhead.

The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.

The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.

The Obama damage is two-fold. First, his success relied on a coalition that likely will not survive, or at least survive at full strength, without Obama himself on the ticket. Secondly, Obama drove a significant portion of white voters away from the Democratic Party.

The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.

The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring all along. It did more damage to his reputation than anything else.

The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).

The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well