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.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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.

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

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

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.

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.

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

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.

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