Quotes About Harming Others

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.

George Clooney

#4. When you become completely loving and kind without fear and without thought of harming others, you graudate from the Earth school. That is when reincarnation ends.

Gary Zukav

#5. You may think you are harming others and some of you take pleasure in this, but in reality you are harming yourself hundreds of times more than you have harmed anyone else.

Khorshed Bhavnagri

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

Dalai Lama

#10. 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

#11. As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

Joel Bakan

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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
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Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#18. 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

#19. You are worth more than harming yourself

Demi Lovato

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

Kesha

#24. In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar.

Anonymous

#25. The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

Winston Churchill

#27. 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

#28. If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

Sienna Miller

#29. One man encompasses all of humanity. Harming one man is harming humanity

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#30. 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.

#31. 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

#32. Harming one's unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.

J.S.B. Morse

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

Dalai Lama

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Steven Pinker

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

M.F. Moonzajer

#51. 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

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

Epicurus

#53. 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

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

Sandra Harner

#55. 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

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

Peter D. Kramer

#57. Progressive policies are harming the Black community.

Deneen Borelli

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

Adam Werbach

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

Dan Quayle

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

Ilana Mercer

#61. 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

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

Patti LaBelle

#63. 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

#64. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Jose Marti

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

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

Hesiod