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.
I think that Internet as such, as a phenomenon is worth prohibiting because it gives nobody anything good.
Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
It is not possible to teach an entire generation to bomb and destroy others in an undeclared, unjustified war abroad without paying the price in the derangement of our own society.
Referring to the Vietnam War:
Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.
The evils which sapped the nation’s strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.
Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.
I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.
It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.
There is a national consensus building here that drugs are doing a great deal of damage to the Bolivian society.
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
The pest of society is egotists.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or any of the precepts perfectly. But because of the real danger in our society-alcoholism has destroyed so many families and has brought about much unhappiness-we have to do something. We have to live in a way that will eradicate that kind of damage. That is why even if you can be very healthy with one glass of wine every week, I still urge you with all my strength to abandon that glass of wine.
Another man whose social life has ruined him.
It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.
What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.
