“Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.” FormPoliticalBrainCuresIdeologyDamageSevereConservatismPolitical Ideology Author:Malachy McCourt
“We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.” ThinkingShouldProblemWould BeTalkingTaxesIncreaseRaisesEnvironmentalSolveIncomeThings To DoDamageWhy NotLots Of MoneyCarbonConstructiveEmissionsIncome TaxCarbon EmissionsEnvironmental Damage Author:Robert F. Engle
“If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution . . . the evolution of life on this planet.” IfsShouldEarthCan DoTechnologyPlanetsEvolutionFutureMajorsImpactDamageCapabilityPredictionsHomeworkAsteroidsEvolution Of Life Author:Rusty Schweickart
“I really don't do anything to break myself. As far as the damages to my body, I'm not a drinker. I let the gin and juice alone.” BodyBreakDamageJuiceDrinkersGin Author:Snoop Dogg
“I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.” PeopleGrowsFeltGrowing UpDamageHousehold Author:Andrew Solomon
“The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.” ThinkingWorldWritingHelpingProblemPoliticalNextProcessFeminismMovementThirdsWaveDamageMentoring Author:Erica Jong
“Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.” YearsSpiritualMy OwnStepsStudyMental HealthI RealizedScriptureRecoveryDamageTwelveFundamentalismEnd TimesSessionSpend TimeTherapistsRecovering Author:Richard Rossi
“The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring all along. It did more damage to his reputation than anything else.” PeopleIfsLooksMadeChanceReputationMade ItDamageMikeConspiring Author:Andrea Leadsom
“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.” Has BeensPoliticalFightingAttitudeEnemyFairsActivismDamageNot FairPolitical Activism Author:June Jordan
“Sure, we have an obstacle, ISIS. They can do great damage. They can do great damage and they scare the living hell out of everybody with good reason. But they are, instead of dealing with nation-states that are arranged against us, we're to deal with non-state actors that can do damage to us. But this is within our control. We are beginning to make genuine progress as to how we isolate them, how we take them out. We're in a situation - I mean, I just could go on. But I am - the only generic criticism I had is we're not talking about the possibilities.” MeanStatesReasonActorsNationsCan DoDealsTalkingSituationHellProgressPossibilityGoes OnCriticismObstaclesGenuineDamageScareIsisNot TalkingGeneric Author:Joe Biden
“When you say, "I have a sad heart," then you literally have a sad heart. If we looked inside your heart, we would find it affected by molecules that cause stress and damage, such as excessive amounts of adrenaline and cortisol.” IfsHeartCausesAmountStressDamageAffectedMoleculesAdrenalineSad Heart Author:Deepak Chopra
“Cacao has the highest antioxidant concentration of any major food in the world. Cacao is thirty times higher in antioxidants than red wine, twenty times more potent in antioxidants than blueberries, three times higher than acai, and twice as much as chaga mushrooms. These antioxidants protect our cells from free radical damage and therefore contribute to our longevity and state of well-being.” WorldWellsStatesThreeHigherProtectMajorsHighestRedTwentiesWineRadicalCellsWell BeingThirtyDamageConcentrationLongevityThree TimesMushroomsRed WineBlueberriesAntioxidantsCacao Author:David Wolfe
“Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats. If we tackle these problems now, we buy ourselves time to work on climate change.” IfsHas BeensProblemOceanDestructionClimateClimate ChangeLocalsDamageInsultPollutionHabitatOverfishing Author:Nancy Knowlton
“Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue.” KindFightingPowerfulKnownHealthyCancerAll KindsDamageMost PowerfulRadiationHerbsTissues Author:David Wolfe
“That's what Donald Trump said when he starts talking about, "The Second Amendment people might have..." "You're not taking my guns. No matter who you appoint to the court, you're not taking my guns," is all it means, pure and simple. If everybody could just take a breath here and let's get back to who's really doing damage to our country.” PeopleIfsMeanSaidCountryMatterMightSimpleTalkingTrumpPureGunBreathsCourtOur CountryDamageGet BackAmendmentsSecond Amendment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish cousins, causing horrible and irreversible damage to wild species.” SpeciesFishesHorribleDamageConcentrationCampsMatesFloatingCousinCrowdedAlteredConcentration CampIrreversible Author:Sharon Gannon
“I learned from my parents to do my best to not react to negative emotions. I try to think about what has happened and find the lessons that can be learned from these difficult experiences. I try to deal with these negative emotions right away because, if they stay inside, they can hurt and do a lot of damage. I release them as soon as possible so I can be free.” IfsThinkingTryingI CanParentDifficultHurtDealsEmotionHappenedLessonsNegativeReleaseDamageNegative EmotionsDifficult Experiences Author:Yanni
“We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to this [Barack Obama] administration.” PeopleAmericaMillionsForgottenAdministrationBarackDamageAcceptableUnemployedCollateralCollateral Damage Author:Lou Dobbs
“We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.” KindSocialStuffCommunityGoneMomPopsStoresDestroyedDamageNeighborhoodCyclesFabricUrbanHighwaysRenewalUrban LifeUrban Renewal Author:David Byrne
“Words aren't hurting anybody. Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly. But we're so focused on the words.” HurtFocusedDamage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.” HumansPurposeHuman BeingsMilitaryStyleWeaponsCapacityMagazinesDamageAssaultAssault Weapons Author:Mark Shields
“In my opinion, according to the law of defamation prevalent in this country (U.S.A.), you cannot in any way participate in the publication of the 'Forces Secrètes de la Révolution' by de Poncins, without incurring grave legal responsibility with risk of damages...The personalities and associations criticized are so powerful in this country that very costly lawsuits would certainly result from the publication of the book.” WayBookCountryLawForceResultsPowerfulResponsibilityOpinionRiskPersonalityJewGravesDamageAssociationPublicationLawsuitDefamationIncurring Author:Leon V. DePoncins
“The music industry has changed drastically and that damages young artists. They don't have the same support system that we had. They wanted us to be happy. Today I would have been dropped after the first flop.” FirstsHas BeensTodayWantedYoungArtistSupportChangedIndustryDamageMusic IndustrySupport SystemsYoung Artists Author:Cliff Richard
“Hillary [Clinton] has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.” WarWholeTrumpProgramClintonClimateFasterDamageFracking Author:Jill Stein
“The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.” EarthFacesTaughtCollegeFactorsDamageAgriculture1930s Author:Bill Mollison
“It's true that non-ionizing radiation lacks the power to have damage. But its damage seems to come from its modulated signal. So every 900 milliseconds, if you have a cellphone in your pocket, it's getting half of that radiation which is getting into you as it seeks the signal from the tower.” IfsSeemsHalfDamagePocketsRadiationTowersSignalsCellphone Author:Devra Davis
“The younger a cell, the faster it grows, the more vulnerable it is to damage.” GrowsVulnerableCellsFasterDamage Author:Devra Davis
“What I do know is that drones are a modern weapon. When used effectively, when taking out ISIS or terrorist leaders, that's pretty impressive. When bombing wedding parties of innocent people and killing dozens of them, that is, needless to say, not effective and enormously counterproductive. So whatever the mechanism, whoever is in control of that policy, it has to be refined so that we are killing the people we want to kill and not innocent collateral damage.” PeopleKnowsWantUsedPartyLeaderModernPolicyWeaponsKillingTerroristInnocentDamageDozenMechanismImpressiveIsisRefinedBombingDronesCounterproductiveCollateralCollateral DamageWedding Party Author:Bernie Sanders
“Democracy wants to win by reason, not by arms or by any other material damage, because, look, I don't have to remind you that I am totally for peace. It is my greatest dream. It was and will remain so.” WantLooksReasonDreamWinningDemocracyMaterialsArmsDamage Author:Shimon Peres
“When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could even do damage. That is because managing creative teams and people is very different from managing the factory worker/foreman relationship.” PeopleMindDifferentCreativityCreativeEnvironmentTeamDangerWorkersDrivenTraditionalDamageFactoriesMind SetFactory WorkersCreative Team Author:John Kao
“People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is an obvious example. But so is British imperialism, which was not grubby self-interest all the way down, but at least in part a sincere attempt on the part of people who felt they were superior to other people to magnanimously improve the lot of their inferiors.” PeopleWorldWaySelfCountryDoneFeltInterestExampleAmountObviousBritishEnormousSuperiorsCommunismDamageSincereInferiorsImperialismSelf Interest Author:Dale Jamieson
“I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.” ThinkingEconomyDamageEmergingEmerging Economies Author:Jamie Dimon
“What a pleasure to hear Michael Savage backtalk to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, there is such hypocrisy with her. I didn't start out as a Clinton basher; I started out hopeful years ago. What she's doing here is merely damage control because her drugs have come under criticism.” KnowsYearsPleasureDrugYears AgoCriticismClintonDamageHypocrisyHopefulSavagesBashersDamage Control Author:Peter Breggin
“Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.” UseWantedChoicesAudienceSacrificeBattleDirectOpponentsDamageRepresentationAntagonistPersonal Sacrifice Author:Jay Roach
“We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.” DoneAmountDataDamageTemperatureBeing Done Author:Bill McKibben
“Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.” PeopleWorldWayYearsCountryPoorWestAround The WorldDamagePoor People Author:Bill McKibben
“I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside.” ThinkingTurnsDamageGasIncentivesCountrysideFracking Author:Bill McKibben
“Like for Putin it's really about hosting this two-week [Olympic] party and showing it off to the world.It's a pride thing. It's a big PR exercise for him and for Russia. So, at that point $50 billion and some environmental damage and a small city's future don't really matter.” WorldTwoMatterBigsPartyCitiesWeekPrideExerciseEnvironmentalBillionsRussiaDamagePutinTwo WeeksEnvironmental Damage Author:Gary Hustwit
“Donald Trump's a great deal-maker with a lot of momentum and it will do a lot of damage to us. We are in grave peril and it's going to be terrible.” DealsTrumpTerribleGravesDamageMakersPerilMomentum Author:Van Jones
“In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's a question of how much pain and suffering America has to endure in the meantime.” LongRunningPainAmericaSufferingLeftVisionStandingEndureDamageLong RunsPain And Suffering Author:Jonathan Chait
“The New York Times does an unbelievable amount of damage because every day television and radio stations along with the rest of media take their lead on the way the news should be presented along with what actually is the news.” WayShouldDoeMediaNew YorkTelevisionAmountNewsRadioDamageStationsUnbelievableNew York TimesRadio StationsTelevision And Radio Author:Jackie Mason
“I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I've ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up - motley isn't the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin.” YearsTwoMomentsProblemFilmVisionGroupsNew YorkCriticsCirclesDamageAwardsTwo DaysStood UpNapkinsFilm Critics Author:Bill Murray
“You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.” SaidStatesUseLawCausesEnvironmentConflictWeaponsCourtThreatInternationalHarmContraryNuclearDamageNuclear WeaponsInternational LawArmed Conflict Author:John Burroughs
“If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.” IfsEnoughCenturyDamageUndone Author:John F. Kerry
“If you were running a solar company you may be okay - you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?” IfsMayEnoughRunningAbleGrowsCompanyGrowingOkayPhysicsDamage Author:Bill McKibben
“We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.” KnowsWorldDamageReachingTippingTipping Point Author:Bill McKibben
“I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it takes for the damage done by that to wash through our society and our communities, the disadvantages born out of kids being undiagnosed with mental-health problems early, or not getting the kind of exposure to reading and math when they're 4 or 5 or 6 years old, that carries a cost.” MenWantYearsKindDoneProblemKidsReadingBornCommunityJusticeAmountCostMental HealthMathCriminalsAfrican AmericanDamageOur SocietyCarrieExposureDisadvantagesOur CommunityJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemHealth Problems Author:Barack Obama
“The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines.” IfsTryingCountryUseResultsSituationTruth IsTerroristDamageCaptureFewerMarineCiviliansUnwillingCasualtiesDronesCollateralCollateral DamageCivilian Casualties Author:Barack Obama
“A lot of people are worried that many of our rights and privileges we've come to expect as part of the American democratic process will be abandoned or restricted in some way. That is a valid fear and it makes it all the more important that people get together now to prevent any possible damage.” PeopleWayImportantTogetherProcessRightsDemocraticPrivilegeWorriedDamageAbandonedGet TogetherDemocratic ProcessRights And Privileges Author:Ezra G. Levin
“Going all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, it is clear that the government is not concerned with damage to national security, because in none of these cases was there damage.” WayGovernmentCasesClearSecurityConcernedDamageNational Security Author:Edward Snowden