Damaging Quotes

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England.

I believe an adult must intervene. You really have to. Kids just don't have the emotional maturity to deal with bullying and it can be extremely damaging; it can be life-changing. So I see that as a special thing that people need to be very careful in how they handle bullying.

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

We gave the daisy ad so much publicity that it was shown over and over on news and commentary programs so a lot of people saw it who wouldn't have ordinarily. We thought it was very damaging so obviously we demanded that it be withdrawn.

The left paints police as murderers, the justice system as an instrument of state oppression, and incarceration as a massive vice that is overused and damaging to the social fabric. The imposition of discomfort on criminals, by arrest, bail, jail, fines or prison, we are now told, is regressive, racist and, remarkably, a cause of crime. Even the language used to describe lawbreakers has been sterilized: Criminals are now “justice-involved individuals,” rioters are “mostly peaceful” and released convicts are “returning citizens.” In the upside-down world of progressive fantasy, bad men do no wrong, and good men do no right.