Best 326 quotes in «damage quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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.

The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.

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

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body.

The younger a cell, the faster it grows, the more vulnerable it is to damage.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch.  (on Arsenal)

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.