Injurious

Famous quotes containing the word injurious:

“An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.”
—Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (c. 348–405)