Non Harming Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Jose Marti

#3. 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

#4. If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.

Ilana Mercer

#5. 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

#6. Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

Patti LaBelle

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. When you're saying something good in someway, you're not harming anyone in anyway.

Debasish Mridha

#10. It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Dan Quayle

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Hesiod

#16. Progressive policies are harming the Black community.

Deneen Borelli

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Having enough for now, while not harming the future.

Adam Werbach

#20. 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

#21. Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like

Peter D. Kramer

#22. 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

#23. You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who's harming yourself.

Sandra Harner

#24. 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

#25. Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

#26. 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

#27. Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason.

M.F. Moonzajer

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The goal of the judicial system should be to rehabilitate wrongdoers rather than harming them,

Steven Pinker

#31. Love yourself so much that you can never harm yourself. Remember, you can never harm others without harming yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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