harmful attitudes Quotes

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Every time we judge our brother in our hearts or worse when we speak badly of them with others, we are murdering Christians.

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.