Top 100 Quotes About Harm
#1. Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.
Simone Weil
#2. There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#3. I lie to her. Because this world is not safe. The people who are supposed to protect us, the people we are supposed to trust -- I know that sometimes they are the ones who do the most harm.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#4. Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.
Tom Daschle
#5. My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
Hans Frank
#6. Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.
William R. Polk
#7. I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.
Augusten Burroughs
#8. What harm does lying cause? One loses people's trust. And once one loses trust, he becomes worthless.
Dada Bhagwan
#9. Now's the time for sweet good-bye To what could never be, To promises we ne'er could keep, To a magic you and me. If we should try to prove our love, Our love would be in danger. Let's put our love beyond all harm. Good-bye - sweet, gentle stranger.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#10. We should beware of speaking ill or doing harm to others, for their Angels will defend them and avenge them. Our
Fr. Paul O'Sullivan
#12. Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
Sarah Vowell
#13. Witches aren't like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it's wicked of them to say we don't. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.
Terry Pratchett
#15. Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.
Jeanne Schinto
#16. We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened ... what harm is there in this? ... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
Baha'u'llah
#17. I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
Bertrand Russell
#18. So, you are happy to be a pigeon?"
"Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense of the other creatures that dwell in the desert.
Geraldine Brooks
#19. The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.
Saint Augustine
#20. Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.
Brad Pitt
#21. And great men do great good, or else great harm.
John Webster
#22. Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition ... and does not harm consumers and innovation.
Mario Monti
#23. I think the whole idea of keeping a weapon with us is gibberish, like, if we don't have weapon at the first place, nobody's gonna harm anyone, right? Because, we don't have the instrument to do it, and we can't protect themselves from unexpectedly unnecessary payback attack, right?
Rea Lidde
#24. If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate ... Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
#25. A man could be dogmatic, and that was all right, or he could be stupid, and no harm done, but stupid and dogmatic at the same time was too much, especially fluxed with body odor.
Terry Pratchett
#26. On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.
Jeff Cooper
#27. There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves
Milton Friedman
#28. life is full of unexpected tumbles. you will come to little harm if you learn to accept them in good heart.
Claire Lorrimer
#29. I'm offering you my pain. My blood. My pleasure. I'm offering you the right to whip and fuck. To debase and harm. I'm offering to fight your needs with my own. I'm willing to join you in the darkness and find pleasure in excruciating pain. I'm willing to be your monster, Q.
Pepper Winters
#30. That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.
David Hawkins
#31. Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me.
S.A. Tawks
#32. We can also see from the turkey story the mother of all harmful mistakes: mistaking absence of evidence (of harm) for evidence of absence,
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#33. If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
Andrew Solomon
#34. A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them? I don't think it should be considered 'racist' to admit maybe ending apartheid did more harm than good in South Africa.
Zach Braff
#35. I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
R. Kelly
#36. Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
Zach Wamp
#37. When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.
Mark Twain
#38. It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are ...
... We must always take risks. That is our destiny ...
T. S. Eliot
#39. It's a wonder of human behavior: we build our own handcuffs that trap and harm us. We create the myth, and we honor it. We tell the lie, and we believe it.
Raif Badawi
#40. There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
Calvin Coolidge
#42. Single-purposism, as we have seen, tends to create projects that harm the environment. Instead, we should design projects with as favourable an environmental impact as possible. This is the objective of environmental impact design.
Tom Turner
#43. We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
Winston S. Churchill
#44. The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.
Robert Baer
#46. Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.
Chanakya
#47. I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
Joe Conason
#48. And thanks be to God, Johnny, said Mr Dedalus, that we lived so long and did so little harm.
James Joyce
#49. A person's mental disguise would never reveal his or her true identify, which it could create harm for others.
Saaif Alam
#50. As he has promised, no harm has come to the Baudelaire orphans in the Reptile Room, but great harm had come to Uncle Monty.
Lemony Snicket
#51. Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
Frank Moore Colby
#52. In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.
Ephrem The Syrian
#53. Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that's not the right question. The question is: Are we living a life that is worth the harm?
Joseph Fink
#54. Profanity influences mental harm for the community and people should be aware of it.
Saaif Alam
#55. No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
Therese Of Lisieux
#56. There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves.
James T. Kirk
#57. Everyone to their own. But a nice, warm, friendly spanking never did anyone any harm.
Chloe Thurlow
#58. He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
Laozi
#59. The intention of Scripture is to exercise our faith, that we may know we are protected by God's hand, and that we may not be subject to harm from Satan and wicked men. . .
John Calvin
#60. Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.
Suzanne Collins
#61. I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.
Jason Statham
#62. Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
Tacitus
#63. The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
Charles Spurgeon
#64. If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
Saint Francis De Sales
#65. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#66. Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.
Christopher Hitchens
#67. A snake that could harm you, you don't have much choice to kill. You wouldn't be able to leave a cobra in your sock drawer. But a snake that is no threat will greatly define the man who decides to kill it anyways.
Tiffany McDaniel
#68. I have sworn to be done with it. To not gaze into its core. but faced as I am with the prospect of my end, what harm is there I one last look .
Oliver Bowden
#69. If he'd done something to harm her, I would annihilate him.
Stephenie Meyer
#70. It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
Mary Douglas
#72. An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.
Janny Wurts
#73. Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
#74. If you believe you are beyond harm, will you go inside? Will you enter this palace so prominent in blood and glory, follow your face through the web-spanned dark, toward the exquisite chiming of the clavier? The alarms cannot see us. The wet policeman lurking in the doorway cannot see us. Come ...
Thomas Harris
#75. You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Gustave Flaubert
#76. Without war there are no heroes."
"What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#77. You will meet many people who try to harm you, pull you down or back stab you. Don't worry! They can't really succeed unless you allow them to. Fill your aura with so much love and energy that that it will disallow any efforts to harm you!
Neelam Saxena Chandra
#78. Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.
Jack Donovan
#79. Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us
physicians, patients, and communities
to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'
David Satcher
#80. Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Ted Olson
#81. Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.
Gautama Buddha
#82. Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
Gautama Buddha
#83. Ebola...is manufactured and purposefully mutated to cause the most harm possible... (p. 105)
Julie Rowe
#84. I take a nap. ... It doesn't help much, but then it doesn't do any harm.
Pamela J. Ball
#85. Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally reduce poor people to objects that I use to fulfill my own need to accomplish something. I am not okay, and you are not okay. But Jesus can fix us both.
Steve Corbett
#86. What harm can it do to find out? It's a question that left bruises down the centuries, even more than "It can't hurt if I only take one" and "It's all right if you only do it standing up.
Terry Pratchett
#87. There is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.
George MacDonald
#88. Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Anonymous
#91. Chase leaned on the table, staring Sammy straight in the eye. "If you ever, ever try to harm my mate again, in any way, no matter how indirectly, I will find you.
Zoe Chant
#92. Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.
Nhat Hanh
#93. Before asserting a prognosis on any patient, always be objective and never subjective. For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life, but then later discovering that he will lose, will harm him more than by telling him that he may lose, but then he wins.
Suzy Kassem
#94. It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.
George Galloway
#95. To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
Harry Houdini
#96. The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.
Anais Nin
#97. We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.
Thuli Madonsela
#98. This is one of the most dreadful evils of alcohol, that it kills insidiously, as if it were doing no harm, or as if it were doing good, while it is destroying
Martha Meir Allen
#99. There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#100. The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were
alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.
Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart
