#damage

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


J. K. Rowling


#dislike #indifference #more #much #neglect

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


#airlines #course #damage #goods #injury

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.


J. K. Rowling


#defiance #kind #meet #often #people

We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.


Silvan Shalom


#against #another #attacks #carry #come

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


#approaching #beyond #co2 #damage #devastating

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


Layne Staley


#arteries #available #brain #brain damage #cause

Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this "terrorism"), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this "collateral damage"). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct... For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.


Sam Harris


#collateral-damage #moral-equivalence #noam-chomsky #faith

You have two emotions—apathy and rage—and nothing in between.” Ellie wanted him to stop, but she could hear the truth in his words. She closed her eyes for his killing blow. “It’s like you’re not even a person. You’re an…organism.” “That’s not true.” Ellie forced her eyes open. “I am a person. I’m just not good at it.


S.G. Redling


#funny

Everybody's damaged by something.


Emma Donoghue


#everybody #life #room #sad #something

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.


Lionel Shriver


#sad #safe #safety #safety