Famous quotes containing the word injurious:
“...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own race—Contact with the African degenerates our white race—I find the association with them injurious to my child—keenly as I watch to prevent it & his faithful nurse to help me ... She is a good woman & so are many of them—Still the race is a degraded one ...”
—Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?)
“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)
“Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.”
—Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (c. 348–405)