A Quote by Maia Szalavitz

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

Maia Szalavitz

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Addiction Diabetes Harmful Incarceration Kids Particularly Potentially Useful

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Maia Szalavitz
Born: March 29, 1965

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.

Simone de Beauvoir

It seemed that the problem of Americans overdosing and dying from drug addiction was being described as bad people, particularly kids, who were abusing good drugs. But Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, and I were particularly interested in finding out the stories of people and families who had been ravaged by this disease of addiction and understanding what really was happening. What we found was that, and let's not make any mistake about it, this is an epidemic of addiction.

Perri Peltz

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

Leo Tolstoy

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Thomas Mann

I have Type-1 diabetes, so Team 1 Diabetes is one thing I've been a part of for a while, empowering kids who have diabetes to know they can do anything they want to do. It's amazing, how much guilt and sadness comes with a kid when they find out they're diagnosed with diabetes.

RaeLynn

Often, people think that individual data is the most valuable thing they can collect. But it's not useful to know what I am doing or where I am, unless you're particularly interested in me, which is weird. But it is very useful to know what a population of people are doing.

Hilary Mason

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Man Ray

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Giacomo Leopardi

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

John Burnham Schwartz

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Victor Hugo

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

Martin Fowler

To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.

Marc Jacobs

All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful in a society.They've always been useful as a way of critiquing power. The carnivalesque has always been useful as a way of the powerful being mocked in a public space.

Kehinde Wiley

the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.

Thomas Jefferson

What is a good man? Simply one whose life is useful to the world. And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others. There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness. These are the worst of all.