Injurious Quotes

• Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

  

  John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
  • Independent
  • Charity
  • Injurious

• There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

  

  Confucius
  • Friendships
  • Observation
  • Sincere

• The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Agent
  • Cigarettes
  • Injurious

• Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

  

  John Milton
  • Words
  • Answer
  • Injurious

• Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

  

  John Milton
  • Power
  • Strange
  • Injurious

• What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

  

  Ann Bridge
  • Values
  • Advertising
  • Injurious

• You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And then, it seems to me something political is happening. Because we're not really looking at the kind of speech that is injurious.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Religious
  • Speech
  • Gays