Damage Quotes

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Thomas S. Monson

Integrity, Individual, Test

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. Mencken

After, Might, Worse

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling

Often, Neglect, Dislike

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Good, Bad

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
Doug Coupland

End, Brain, Begin

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
Marilyn Manson

Time, Best, Done

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
Henry Miller

Work, Good, Joy

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

History, Human, Done

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.
Lou Holtz

Player, Agent, Dependent

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
Cat Stevens

Character, Doubt, Trying

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

Done, Sometimes, Year

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
Camille Paglia

Done, Repair, Prestige

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
Billy Corgan

Again, Fame, Stage

The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
Eliot Spitzer

Time, Action, Point

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.
Anne Lamott

Love, Busy, Everyone

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Layne Staley

Pain, Brain, Made

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.
William J. Clinton

President, Started, Found

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.
Thomas Frank

Mind, Made, Purpose

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
Peter Singer

Home, America, Around

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
June Jordan

Attitude, Yourself, Enemy

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Perhaps, Nations, Issues

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
David Suzuki

Change, Lost, Lives

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith

Money, Government, Problems

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.
Kevin Mitnick

Time, Control, Enough

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
Alan Dershowitz

Innocent, Terrorism, Warfare

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.
Margaret Cho

Wanted, Body, Permanent

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
will.i.am

Society, Complex, Warned

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.
Andrew Cuomo

York, Customary, Flooding

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
Timothy Geithner

Money, End, Long

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Harold Pinter

Human, Happens, Unless

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