Hurtful Quotes

• A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

  

  John Milton
  • Prove
  • Principle
  • Hurtful

• Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Courage
  • Consequences

• Study the hurtful patterns of your life.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Study
  • Patterns

• To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter.

  

  George Washington
  • Broken
  • Oath
  • Latter

• Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Possess
  • Riches
  • Hurtful

• It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Humility
  • Modesty
  • Hurtful

• We don't take a macro view, ... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Trade
  • Helpful
  • Sanctions

• I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Majority
  • Convinced
  • Monarchy

• No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I try not to do it in a way that is hurtful, but I always tell him the truth, and he tells me the same thing. I trust him the most, and I know he trusts me the most.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Tell

• Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

  

  George Washington
  • Giving
  • Discipline
  • Army

• No matter what I do, I can't help but feel that I'm under a microscope. Some of it is completely silly, and some of it is meant to be hurtful. For example, a website accumulated all of my music videos to point out perceived Illuminati images. I loved that one. Of course, it was all ridiculous but funny.

  

  Steve Aoki
  • Helping
  • Silly
  • Ridiculous

• I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's hurtful when that happens.

  

  Erin Davie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Happens

• The most hurtful thing to me is when people try to put assumptions on me and my relationship because that is not OK. Love is something that's really serious and private that you can't try to claim or know.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • People
  • Trying
  • Serious

• Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Lying

• The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Family
  • Evil
  • Sad

• A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Money
  • May
  • Bad

• Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.

  

  Sandra Tsing Loh
  • People
  • Kind
  • Speak

• Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Hurtful
  • Honourable Man

• This is why I don't like to argue with people. You say things you don't mean. Or, you kind of mean them, but the way you say it sounds arrogant and hurtful.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Argue
  • Hurtful
  • Don't Mean

• Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Happiness
  • Too Late
  • Hurtful

• The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Birth

• Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to be hurtful on social media. But I think it's kind of funny. There's a lot of things that make me laugh, that people would try and say those things. I mean, there's some that I can't even retweet or respond to just because of how bad it is.

  

  Rickie Fowler
  • People
  • Media
  • Because

• There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances.

  

  Bree Despain
  • Difference
  • Circumstances
  • Hurtful

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