Kurt Eichenwald

The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.

American Editor

George Muller

As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.

English Clergyman

Democritus

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Greek Philosopher

John Dalberg-Acton

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

English Historian

Charles Darwin

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

English Scientist

Robert Lighthizer

While never the darling of pure free traders, measures to combat dumping, subsidies, and injurious import surges have always been deemed essential by open economies like the United States to maintain support for trade.

American Public Servant

William Falconer

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

Scottish Poet

Richard Jefferies

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

English Writer

John D. Rockefeller

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

American Businessman

Prudentius

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

Emphasizes harm done, especially in health-related contexts, suggesting it should be avoided.

Negative Nuance

Often used to warn others about serious risks or dangers.

Strong Warning

Predominantly used in formal contexts, such as academic papers or official warnings.

Formal Language

Specific to offenses or actions that cause harm, often with legal implications.

Legal Context

Conveys an action that is not just harmful but may be criminally punishable.

Criminal Implications

Refers to actions seen as ethically wrong or causing moral harm.

Morally Offensive

 People don't know that they have lived through worse, that problems of the heart hit with a force greater than a runaway truck, that problems of the mind are greater still, more injurious, than a hundred broken necks.

Injurious