Harm Quotes - Page 10

• In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Trying, Ease

  Jack Kevorkian (1991). “Prescription--medicide: the goodness of planned death”

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• Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion - that is all "our" doing, "our" invention: the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man - often with the best intentions - much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.189, Routledge

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• Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

  Russell Conwell

  Money, Men, Hands

  Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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• The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

  Walter Bagehot

  Reflection, Doe, Melancholy

  'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'

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• Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping, Avoiding, Deals

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• Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in
  harm's way every day, every week, every year.

  James McGreevey

  Years, Firefighter, Police

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• The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, One Sentence, Sentences

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• Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

  Omar Suleiman

  True Friend, Offending, Risk

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 28, 2013

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• It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

  Demi Lovato

  Feelings, Body, Sacred

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• Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Devil, Watches

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.154, Editora Dracaena

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• The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts to release hundreds of sporozoites into the body cavity of the mosquito ... As far as we can tell, the parasite does not harm the mosquito ... It has always seemed to me, though, that these growing cysts ... must at least give the mosquito something corresponding to a stomach-ache.

  Marston Bates

  Wall, Science, Cells

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• The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do not myself think the danger is serious; either a reasonable amount of concentration leads to new ideas or methods of obvious interest, or else one just leaves the problem alone. "Perfect numbers" certainly never did any good, but then they never did any particular harm.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Thinking, Numbers

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities... to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Reading, Passion

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• 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

  Serious, Self Defense, Instant

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.32, Paladin Press

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• Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Good Man, Needs

  "On Education" (1867)

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• 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

  Live Life, America, Desire

  "Brad Pitt comes out against gay marriage ban proposal" by Kevin Anderson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

  Tsem Tulku

  Eyebrows, Different, Agendas

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• What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.

  Ann Voskamp

  Arms, Matter, Undone

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• I have spent my entire life helping millions of children across the world. I would never harm a child. It is unfortunate that some individuals have seen fit to come forward and make a complaint that is completely false. Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court. These people wanted to exploit my concern for children by threatening to destroy what I believe in and what I do. I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Believe, Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Much harm has been done in the name of love, but no harm can be done in the name of respect.

  Magda Gerber

  Names, Done, Has Beens

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• The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this book and all written with felicitous and steady grace.

  Ron Carlson

  Book, Men, Grace

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• I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

  Lucille Ball

  Attitude, Hard Work, Makeup

  "Love, Lucy" by Lucille Ball, (pp. 9-10), 1996.

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• This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

  Sylvia Earle

  Nature, Sea, Way

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• The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Two, Air

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• In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Vices, Mankind, Fanaticism

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