Harm Quotes - Page 6

• Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Political, Voting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.304, Harvard University Press

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• Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doe, Want, Carelessness

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• A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

  Aristotle

  Men, Beast, Badness

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

  Ovid

  Occupy Yourself, Way

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• The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

  Theodore Parker

  Mean, Loss, Men

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.84

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• Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Compassion, Imagination, Firsts

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• It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.

  Gertrude the Great

  Mistake, Believe, Wish

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• If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Done, Ifs

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.67, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

  John Muir

  Environmental, Wilderness, World Environment

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.45, e-artnow

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• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  Laozi

  Powerful, Heart, Understanding

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• Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

  John Muir

  Learning, Air, Water

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.45, e-artnow

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• Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

  Terry Goodkind

  Wizards, Intention, Results

  Terry Goodkind (2017). “Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness: The Nicci Chronicles”, p.381, Macmillan

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• Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Children, Pet

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sad, Teacher, Appreciation

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

  Norm Dicks

  Environmental, Tools, Decline

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• The harm done is often difficult to repair.

  Cat Stevens

  Done, Difficult

  "Singer Islam Gets Libel Damages". news.bbc.co.uk. February 15, 2005.

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• If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  Xunzi

  Heart, Order, Desire

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• At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

  William Adams

  People, Understanding, Able

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• There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

  Donald Justice

  Journey, Land, Silence

  Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.38, Knopf

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• What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Believe, God Life

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• The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Concepts

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• There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

  Laurel Clark

  Different, Different Things

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• I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

  William Kidd

  Soul, Hell, My Soul

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• Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.

  Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

  Might, Lasts, Cricket

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• If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

  Paula Rego

  Facts, Becoming, Ends

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