Top 100 Harming Quotes
#1. You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.
Walter E. Williams
#2. If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity to live more lightly upon the Earth while experiencing a higher quality of life?
Duane Elgin
#3. Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm ( ... At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.
John Yudkin
#4. Love yourself so much that you can never harm yourself. Remember, you can never harm others without harming yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The goal of the judicial system should be to rehabilitate wrongdoers rather than harming them,
Steven Pinker
#6. It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama
#7. The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.
Randolph Bourne
#8. When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.
Narissa Doumani
#9. Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Epicurus
#10. To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.
Aldrich Ames
#11. You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who's harming yourself.
Sandra Harner
#12. And like any dog, like any savage, I lay there enjoying myself, harming no man, selling nothing, competing not at all, thinking no evil, smiled on by the sun, bent over by the trees, and softly folded in the arms of the earth.
John Stewart Collis
#13. Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like
Peter D. Kramer
#14. Either harming other people is wrong, in which case God is unnecessary, or harming other people is acceptable, in which case God's admonitions are misguided.
Greg Graffin
#15. Having enough for now, while not harming the future.
Adam Werbach
#16. It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle
#17. Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
Steven Seagal
#18. If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.
Ilana Mercer
#19. I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
Alan Greenspan
#20. Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.
Patti LaBelle
#21. I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.
Ingrid Newkirk
#22. When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.
Narendra Modi
#23. When you're saying something good in someway, you're not harming anyone in anyway.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Jose Marti
#25. But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.
Daniel Ellsberg
#26. But if people are genuinely happy in their choice of action or lifestyle, we do not need to impose our standards. If they are not harming themselves, if they are not harming others, can we be generous enough to feel joy for them? That is the practice of mudita.
Sharon Salzberg
#27. Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.
Bill O'Reilly
#28. If only the ruler and his people would refrain from harming each other, all the benefits of life would accumulate in the kingdom.
Wayne W. Dyer
#29. He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
Hesiod
#30. Progressive policies are harming the Black community.
Deneen Borelli
#31. If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.
Sharon Gannon
#32. Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)
Winston Churchill
#33. The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar.
Anonymous
#35. I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
Kesha
#36. Do what helps others.
Refrain from harming others.
Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion.
This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.
Paul R. Fleischman
#37. 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
#38. Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming some children. Is moderation such a terrible idea?
Jenny McCarthy
#39. Without harming anyone, how can I make this world more peaceful? How can I help others to fulfill their desires? How can I enhance and enrich the beauty and happiness for humanity?
Debasish Mridha
#40. You are worth more than harming yourself
Demi Lovato
#41. We can do more for the peace just by changing our thoughts. Be an example of compassion and kindness like Mother Teresa. We all can do that without harming anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#42. I know this is more than I need, and that I'm harming myself by having it, but I love the pleasure of this experience more than I love the pleasure of doing what pleases the Lord, so I'm just going to go ahead and satiate myself
(iuJ/iua/ingq
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#43. But if you plot revenge against an evildoer, you are harming yourself: Not because the thought may come back to injure you, which is superstition, but because negative thinking reinforces the source of negativity. Darkness adds to darkness.
Deepak Chopra
#44. We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity.
Mitch Kapor
#45. You must understand that even if your adversaries seem to be harming you, in the end their destrucive activity will turn against them.
Dalai Lama XIV
#46. If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.
Sienna Miller
#48. Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#49. As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.
Gautama Buddha
#50. Harming one's unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.
J.S.B. Morse
#51. You are in no position to make threats to me."
"I don't have to be. Even if you shoot me, you can be sure you'll never get away from Hart. He's a fucking obsessed bastard, and he's touchy about people harming his sisters-in-law. You will be praying to have me alive once Hart is on your trail.
Jennifer Ashley
#52. It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.
Bill Ackman
#53. By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.
Dalai Lama
#54. Believe it or not, there are plenty of ways to satisfy your need for blood without harming anyone."
I raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, but where's the fun in that?
Jaye Wells
#55. I do hope nobody else here has any other surprises planned, because if you so much as think about harming one another, I will oblige them. This is neutral ground. Violators will be gruesomely and violently shown the error of their ways. Clear?
Rachel Caine
#56. Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.
Paul Bloom
#57. Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.
Jerry Brown
#58. Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.
Fred Upton
#59. I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.
George Meyer
#60. As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.
Joel Bakan
#61. There are bodybuilders who are afraid of indulging in sex or even of playing other sports for fear of harming their bodies. I think that's silly. What's the use of building your body if you don't use it?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#62. A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
E. Stanley Jones
#63. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison
#64. Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.
Paul Rodriguez
#65. How she can be innocent even if she has no intention of harming me; her sweetness and loveliness is the main source of all my pains and sufferings.
M.F. Moonzajer
#66. It's important to be aware of how multitasking can stimulate us into mindlessness, giving the illusion of productivity while stealing our focus and harming performance. "When you are walking, walk. When you are sitting, sit," is ancient wisdom.
Sharon Salzberg
#67. You can't hate those who are harming themselves. Instead you pity them and try to help them if you can.
Darren Shan
#68. Hello, I'm a human. My job is to hunt things and hope that my egotism soars after I kill countless creatures that didn't stand a chance against running away, or harming me, in the first place....Also, I stink of week old carcass.
Kyle Smith
#69. One thing we can be certain: A person that is engaging in violence is hurting deeply, because a healthy and balanced soul is incapable of harming another.
Gary Zukav
#70. Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming?
M.J. Mandoki
#71. And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#72. If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.
Dalai Lama
#73. Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
Victoria Moran
#74. The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.
Sam Harris
#75. Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
William Shakespeare
#76. A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.
Chris Colfer
#77. How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.
Suzanne Collins
#78. As long as you're harming nobody, do what you want!
Anonymous
#79. No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.
Peter Kreeft
#80. We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.
Edward Zigler
#81. One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
Gautama Buddha
#82. Being self-sufficient is not selfish; it is a need. Harming others or yourself is not selfish because it will never benefit the self; it is just stupid.
Elizabeth Cartwright
#83. If you kill me, you kill yourself.
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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
#84. A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Anonymous
#85. Every action that you take - that your disorder tells you to take - is self-harming in the short and long term.
Priyavrat Thareja
#86. Kama purusharth advocates desires fulfilled be,
Albeit in awareness, without harming anybody;
Munindra Misra
#87. Harming no one defines the real happiness
Jaycynth
#88. Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#89. If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking.
Michio Kushi
#90. Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.
Koo Stark
#91. A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne W. Dyer
#92. I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is.
Edward Snowden
#93. History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.
Ahmed Yassin
#94. You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.
Helio Gracie
#95. I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others.
Peter Singer
#96. Adam knew it was childish, but he rationalized it in this way: carelessly harming other people was a decent stand-in for baseline human interaction.
Warren Ellis
#97. Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.
Jose Mujica
#99. If you can, serve other people, other sentient beings. If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy.
Dalai Lama XIV
#100. What is most important to understand about dysfunctional families is that in keeping the family "secrets," we are harming ourselves and diminishing our ability to be honest and open-hearted with ourselves and others we care about
Katherine Mayfield
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