Brian Schmidt Quotes

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

Extremism destroyed those before you.

One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.

We obtained victory. The price was that we ruined the country.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

With the war in Iraq, he [Dalai Lama] feels that the causes of that lie maybe hundreds of years ago, and he says, "What we do now may have consequences far into the future that we will never see."

Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with an axe. The axe does violence to the tree, and escapes unharmed. Is that how you see it? Wood is soft compared to steel, but the sharp steel is dulled as it chops, and the sap of the tree will rust and pit it. The mighty axe does violence to the helpless tree, and is harmed by it. So it is with men, though the harm is in the spirit.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.