Quotes About Not Harming Others

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Jose Marti

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Hesiod

#11. Progressive policies are harming the Black community.

Deneen Borelli

#12. 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

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

Winston Churchill

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Anonymous

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

Kesha

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#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. You are worth more than harming yourself

Demi Lovato

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Steven Pinker

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

M.F. Moonzajer

#34. 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

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

Epicurus

#36. 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

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

Sandra Harner

#38. 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

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

Peter D. Kramer

#40. 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

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

Adam Werbach

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

Dan Quayle

#43. 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

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

Ilana Mercer

#45. 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

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

Patti LaBelle