Injurious Quotes

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

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

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.