Top 556 Harmful Quotes & Sayings

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Weapons are less harmful than words.

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle...

And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

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.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

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

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

Go To statement considered harmful.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.

All religions are both harmful and untrue.

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac)

By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

All art critics are useless or harmful.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body.

Harmful Algal Blooms are a serious environmental and economic threat to New Jersey.

False shame only is harmful.

To read too many books is harmful.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

Narcissism in moderate amounts is not harmful to health.

I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.

I have learnt the hard way that ignoring a small fry can be many times harmful.

A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else.

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

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

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle.

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

Accidental stacks considered harmful.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

If someone on Instagram sees that a friend is in a harmful situation, they can report it.

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

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

Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine.

I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.