Damningly Quotes & Sayings

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words. — Stendhal

Deception is nowhere more common than in religion. And the persons most easily and damningly deceived are the leaders. Those who deceive others are first themselves deceived, for not many, I think, begin with evil intent. The devil, after all, is a spiritual being. His usual mode of temptation is not an obvious evil but to an apparent good. The commonest forms of devil-inspired worship do not take place furtively at black masses with decapitated cats but flourish under the bright lights of acclaim and glory, in a swirl of organ music. — Eugene H. Peterson

Damnation. Damnable, damned, damningly damnation. — Erica Monroe

How genius to call them thumbnails, because what part of the body tells us less? — David Levithan

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government. — Paul Craig Roberts

In the case of Switzerland, a whole country is concerned with the species-appropriate treatment of all things green. The constitution reads, in part, that "account [is] to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants and other organisms." So it's probably not a good idea to decapitate flowers along the highway in Switzerland without good reason. Although this point of view has elicited a lot of head shaking in the international community, I, for one, welcome breaking down the moral barriers between animals and plants. When the capabilities of vegetative beings become known, and their emotional lives and needs are recognized, then the way we treat plants will gradually change, as well. Forests are not first and foremost lumber factories and warehouses for raw material, and only secondarily complex habitats for thousands of species, which is the way modern forestry currently treats them. Completely the opposite, in fact. — Peter Wohlleben

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land. — Noam Chomsky

Remain pure, not in order to be noble or strong but to be yourself. To give your love is to lose love.

Abdicate from life so as not to abdicate from yourself. — Pessoa, Fernando

More and more, paddling the Yellowstone feels like that bedside visit, like we are attending to a friend in dire straits, a friend whom we have seen in the full bloom of health, but with whom, now, there is little to say and only our companionship to offer. — Alan S. Kesselheim

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. — Chogyam Trungpa

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it. — Ann Hood

indeed, bad news has a way of slithering into good days and making a mockery of complacent joys. — Imbolo Mbue