Top 82 Harmful Things Quotes
#1. You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them - for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.
Dalai Lama XIV
#2. Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.
Tristram Stuart
#3. Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights.
Marina Warner
#4. How much suffering and fear, and
How many harmful things are in existence?
If all arises from clinging to the "I",
What should I do with this great demon?
Shantideva
#5. We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
Adam Hamilton
#6. No matter what justification you have for your feelings, you cannot wish harmful things on others.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#7. You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought.
Charles F. Haanel
#8. The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.
Marcus Aurelius
#9. Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
Gautama Buddha
#10. It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.
Christopher Fowler
#11. Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.
Jane Jacobs
#12. Everything which causes us to lose our enthusiasm and self respect, is harmful; even if it means power, money or success.
Paulo Coelho
#13. Baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It
Aristotle.
#14. It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#15. To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.
William S. Burroughs
#17. Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.
Ted Bundy
#18. A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Victor Hugo
#19. The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own self-interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences it might cause to others.
Joel Bakan
#20. Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#21. one reason why schooling is so seldom helpful to children, and almost always deeply harmful, is that they have no reality of encounter with their teachers. The teachers are not themselves, but players of roles. They
John Holt
#22. All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.
George Soros
#24. It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.
John Wooden
#25. Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
King James I
#26. As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
N.K. Jemisin
#27. Even the harmful and awkward and stupid things?" asked Sunday. "There are reasons for those?"
"Especially those." said Joy.
Alethea Kontis
#28. In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change.
Ryan Holiday
#29. People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop into things that are harmful to others.
Ellen J. Barrier
#30. Things can hurt and not harm us. In fact they can even be good for us. And things that feel good can be very harmful to us.
Henry Cloud
#31. In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
Anton Chekhov
#32. There can be no doubt that this possessive clinging to things is one of the most harmful habits in the life. Because it is so natural it is rarely recognized for the evil that it is; but its outworkings are tragic.
A.W. Tozer
#33. Anger and the sorrow it produces are far more harmful than the things which make us angry.
Marcus Aurelius
#34. Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences
Vincent De Paul
#35. I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
Madame De Stael
#36. I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.
Matthew Yglesias
#37. There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are "making a living". No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.
Adrian Tan
#38. The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies ... they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.
Martin Heidegger
#40. It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#41. The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.
Xenophon
#43. For years we've been treating men and women as though the only differences had to do with our sexual organs. The field of Gender-Specific Medicine was launched by cardiologist Marianne J. Legato, M.D. in 1997 when she recognized that a gender-neutral approach could be harmful to both men and women.
Jed Diamond
#44. In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#45. It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca The Younger
#46. An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth
but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#47. All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.
Jared Diamond
#48. Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#49. Being autistic does not mean I don't have empathy. Stereotypes are harmful. If anything I hyper feel everything and have to try to shut off to cope.
Tina J. Richardson
#50. On need of supplement & vitamins- If you eat a balanced diet you get all the vitamins and minerals you need and you don't need any supplement and overdosing can actually be more harmful.
Subodh Gupta
#51. In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.
Immanuel Kant
#52. The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
Bill Gates
#53. This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder
#54. There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
John McCarthy
#55. To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).
Dada Bhagwan
#56. Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.
Tom Hodgkinson
#57. Would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe
Eckhart Tolle
#58. Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
Bertrand Russell
#59. Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless - or even actually harmful.
Isaac Asimov
#61. You need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.
Osho
#62. All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.
Vladimir Putin
#63. It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.
Leland Ryken
#64. The U.N. is worse than disaster. The U.N. creates conflicts. Look at the disgraceful U.N. Human Rights Council: It transmits norms which are harmful, anti-liberty and anti-Semitic, among other things. The world would be better off in its absence.
Charles Krauthammer
#65. True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.
Herman Melville
#66. The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#67. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Paul Gibbons
#68. Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.
Jamais Cascio
#69. Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.
Idries Shah
#70. My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon forty sins, who sucked the lifeblood of the poor, and you call that a crime ?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#71. One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.
Bertrand Russell
#72. There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.
Leo Tolstoy
#73. As a very basic guideline, when someone else asks for your yes in a situation that is good for them, but not for you, your yes is not required and may be harmful to your ability to say any genuine yes to life.
Jane Meredith
#74. Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...
Edith Sitwell
#75. If we consider closely our so-called generous actions, there is none which, from some aspect, is not blameworthy an even harmful, so that we come to regret having performed it - so that we must choose, finally, between abstention and remorse.
Emil Cioran
#76. Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
Pema Chodron
#77. By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#78. Anyone who tells you that electricity is harmless is incompetent in the field of biologically harmful radiation exposures.
Steven Magee
#79. An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
Jeff VanderMeer
#80. A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else.
Tyler Joseph
#81. It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts,
that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
Bertrand Russell
#82. In private life, human beings spend a great deal of time in seclusion behind closed doors (e.g., in bathrooms and bedrooms) and other partitions designed to shield their bodies from prying eyes. Scientists have determined that too much visual monitoring can be harmful to human health.
David B. Givens
