Damage Quotes

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.

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

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

The people who can do you the most damage are the ones who are closest to you.

The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

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

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.

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

Pain or damage don't end the world.

Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

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

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change.

We run to undo the damage we've done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

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.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

He who manages the distance, manages the damage.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

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.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to this [Barack Obama] administration.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

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.