#damage

Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness. ↗

— Steve Mann

#clothing #damage #naked #our #shoes

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

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

— J. K. Rowling

#dislike #indifference #more #much #neglect

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. ↗

— Willa Cather

#emperor #fact #girl #i #never

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#american #american government #believe #both #come

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #comedy #damaged #faults #flawed

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended. ↗

— Charles Vest

#being #being done #damage #done #expended

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage. ↗

— Esther Williams

#damage #enough #football #football player #frame

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. ↗

— Juan Williams

#being #buried #collateral #conversation #correctness