Harm Quotes - Page 4

• I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

  James Cameron

  Nice, Animal, People

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• A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

  Elizabeth I

  Strength, Reality, Hands

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• I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, People, Unfaithful

  "Sources: Jackson accuser appeared on documentary", www.cnn.com. November 24, 2003.

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• The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  War, Independent, Sovereign

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• While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Motivational, Skills, Violence

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• Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

  Marvin Olasky

  Humility, Giver, Prudence

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• I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

  Mary Douglas

  Years, Civilization, Doe

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• It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Sick

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• Where is the harm in the wireless industry?

  Steve Largent

  Wireless, Industry

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• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doe, Literature, Impossible

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 28, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

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• A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Doctors, Redemption, Able

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• Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

  Hippocrates

  Doctors, Medical, Tranquility

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• He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

  Theodor Adorno

  Betrayal, Past, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.166, Verso

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• Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Kindness, Drinking

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.8122, e-artnow

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• Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in "On Liberty." The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Political

  "Friedman & Szasz On Liberty and Drugs". Interview with Randy Paige on "America's Drug Forum", www.druglibrary.org. 1991.

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• If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Self Esteem, Islamic, Knowing

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• If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Truth, Investigation, Ought

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• Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Fear

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• The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Health, Medicine, Restoration

  Samuel Hahnemann, Robert Ellis Dudgeon (1913). “Organon of the Rational Art of Healing”

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• When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Done, Literature, Asks

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• There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Charity, Vexation

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• Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Physicians, Literature, Patient

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.39, See Sharp Press

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• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  Jackie Chan

  Technology, Culture, Cinema

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

  Margaret Cho

  Strong, Bullets, Able

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