It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.
Money is a tool that can either fix or damage your life. Use it wisely.
When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing economic damage, we're also doing culture damage. New York is the culture capital of the world because people are running into each other on the street all the time. They are forced to engage in creativity and problem-solving.
President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me, now. No president - no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.
One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage.
Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
Sometimes a little brain damage can help.
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.
I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.
When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.
To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.
I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'. . . always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.
Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If we are not careful, it can corrupt our culture, damage our eyes and drain away our time.
Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?
When we damage the environment, we damage everything we depend on.
When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.