Harm quotes

Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.
-- A. S. Byatt

#Action #Harm

All that harms labor is treason to America.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#America #Presidential #Harm

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
-- Adrian Cronauer

#Harm

One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Vegetarianism #Harm

We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.
-- Anthony D. Williams

#Hate #Law Of Attraction #Harm

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
-- Aristotle

#Men #Beast #Harm

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.
-- Atul Gawande

#Reality #Care #Harm

We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Trying #Citizens #Harm

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Religion #Harm #True Religion

When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.
-- Bill Cosby

#Mean #Gun #Harm

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
-- Brad Meltzer

#Pain #World #Harm

Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.
-- Brigham Young

#Tea #Harm #Teapots

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb
-- Brother Ali

#Bombs #Harm #Threat

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#History #Silence #Harm

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Radical Change #Danger #Harm

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-- Camille Claudel

#Say Anything #Want #Harm

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.
-- Celia Rees

#Harm #Cures #Heal

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Too Much #Crime #Harm

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
-- Chief Seattle

#Earth #Harm #Contempt

I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).
-- Claudia Gray

#Harm

Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.
-- Dalai Lama

#Helping #Harm #Avoiding

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'
-- Dalai Lama

#Practice #Harm #One Sentence

Anyone who loves the concept of Zero Harm obviously has nothing to love
-- Dave Collins

#Zero #Harm

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
-- David O. McKay

#Anger #Doe #Harm

If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.
-- David Zindell

#Way #Impossible #Harm

An it harm none, do what ye will.
-- Doreen Valiente

#Harm

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
-- Edward Tufte

#Technology #Should #Harm

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Believe #God Life #Harm

If there is no enemy within the enemy outside can do us no harm.
-- Eric Thomas

#Enemy #Harm #Enemy Within

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
-- Frank Moore Colby

#Guilt #Shame #Harm

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
-- Fred Allen

#Criticism #Would Be #Harm

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied
-- Gail Carriger

#Causes #Harm #Irreparable

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.
-- Gary L. Francione

#Eye #Harm #Interest

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Thinking #Weakness #Harm

Don't be overly concerned about your heirs. Usually, unearned funds do them more harm than good.
-- Gerald M. Loeb

#Heirs #Harm #Fund

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
-- Gilbert Parker

#Race #Fierce #Harm

Do the least harm and the most good.
-- H. Jay Dinshah

#Harm

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.
-- Hassan Nasrallah

#Innocent #Harm #Forbidden

People fear what they can't understand and harm what they fear.
-- Heather Brewer

#People #Harm

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
-- Henry George

#Unjust #Economics #Harm

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
-- Hippocrates

#Firsts #Harm

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
-- Hippocrates

#Doctors #Medical #Harm

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
-- Homer

#Done #Fool #Harm

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.
-- J. C. Ryle

#Littles #Sin #Harm

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.
-- J.V. Hart

#Should #Harm

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?
-- James Ellroy

#Confused #World #Harm

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
-- Jef Raskin

#Computer #Harm #Inaction

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.
-- Jennifer Ehle

#Retreat #Wave #Harm

Most harm is done by people who are awake.
-- Jeremy Hardy

#People #Done #Harm

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.
-- Jerry Weller

#Fetus #Crime #Harm

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
-- Jock Sturges

#Photograph #Harm

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.
-- John Knowles

#Dream #Target #Harm

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
-- John Lyly

#Envy #Envious #Harm

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
-- John Maynard Keynes

#Sometimes #Found #Harm

Do that which is good, and no harm shall come to thee.
-- John Proctor

#Harm #Thee

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
-- Joseph Joubert

#Heart #Doe #Harm

I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.
-- Kevin McCloud

#Done #Want #Harm

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.
-- Kristin Hunter

#Armor #Helping #Harm

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
-- Laurel Clark

#Different #Harm

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on,
-- Leon Panetta

#Knowing #Way #Harm

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
-- Louis Kronenberger

#Vices #Harm #Mankind

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.
-- Luigi Pirandello

#Thinking #Harm

Much harm has been done in the name of love, but no harm can be done in the name of respect.
-- Magda Gerber

#Names #Done #Harm

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#World #Divine #Harm

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.
-- Marc Bekoff

#Animal #People #Harm

Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Taken #Complaining #Harm

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.
-- Mark Twain

#Suffering #Body #Harm

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin' ...
-- Martha Ostenso

#Mean #Matter #Harm

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
-- Marvin Olasky

#Humility #Harm #Giver

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.
-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#Causes #Harm #Adaptability

Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.
-- Melissa Farley

#Climate #Social #Harm

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
-- Michael Jackson

#Children #Firsts #Harm

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.
-- Michael Palin

#Harm

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
-- Michelangelo

#Artist #Wasted Time #Harm

Get out of harms way.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Advice #Way #Harm

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves
-- Milton Friedman

#Government #Buying #Harm

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.
-- Myrtle Reed

#Doe #Harm #Wrongdoing

It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
-- Nancy Grace

#Children #Believe #Harm

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney

#Vices #Harm

I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?
-- Nelly

#Herbs #Unanswered Questions #Harm

Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.
-- Nhat Hanh

#Animal #Plant #Harm

What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
-- Nick Hornby

#Taste #Done #Harm

My case was wrongfully decided, and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.
-- Norma McCorvey

#Children #Abortion #Harm

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Beauty #Harm

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
-- Ovid

#Way #Harm

See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.
-- Ovid

#Promise #Rich #Harm

Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#World #Harm #Found

How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?
-- Paul Hawken

#Doe #Harm #Company

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
-- Paul Kagame

#Clock #Harm #Turns

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
-- Peter Kreeft

#Honesty #Harm #Pursuit

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
-- Plato

#Philosophical #Good Things #Harm

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.
-- Pseudonymous Bosch

#Book #Harm

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.
-- Robert B. Parker

#Bullets #Would Be #Harm

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.
-- Robert Baer

#Evil #Doe #Harm

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.
-- Robert Bork

#Thinking #Harm #Immoral

What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong.
-- Robert Ley

#Germany #Harm

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
-- Robertson Davies

#Inspirational #Grudge #Harm

I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you
-- Samantha Shannon

#World #Harm #This World

I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.
-- Sean Patrick Flanery

#Kings #Harm #Greater Good

The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline
-- Shantideva

#Perfection #Discipline #Harm