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• If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

  Meher Baba

  Understanding, Vegetarian, Worship

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Hate, Healing, Health

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• Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc.

  Malcolm Wallop

  America, Government, Long

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• Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Israel, People

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• When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Decision, Causes, Serious

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• Unfortunately, they develop a fixed mindset that they're the most talented, and they think that continued success is a right. Problems arise because pure talent only works as long as the going is easy. Furthermore, they don't take risks because failure would harm their image of being the best, brightest, and most talented. When they do fail, they deny it or attribute it to anything but their shortcomings.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Success, Business, Thinking

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• Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Power, Half

  1603-4 Emilia to Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.169-71.

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• Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Needs, World

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

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• We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

  Jay Rockefeller

  War, Tyrants, Iraq

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• I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Commitment, Hockey

  Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

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• One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Vegetarianism, Injured

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• By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.

  Bill Bright

  Jesus, America, Hands

  Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

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• I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

  Owen D. Young

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

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• Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

  Robertson Davies

  Inspirational, Grudge, Stomach

  Robertson Davies (1991). “Murther and Walking Spirits”, Penguin Group USA

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• Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

  George Orwell

  Average, Lefties, Would Be

  "What is Science?". Tribune, orwell.ru. October 26, 1945.

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• If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Focus, Decision

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1467, Government Printing Office

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• In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone.

  George Orwell

  Government, Punishment, People

  "Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell".

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• Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.

  Al Gore

  Government, Class, Iraq

  "A Commentary on the War Against Terror: Our Larger Tasks". Address to the Council on Foreign Relations, February 12, 2002.

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• Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Dying, Comfort

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.13, Profile Books

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• Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use.

  Washington Gladden

  Christian, Pyramids, Doe

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• I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

  Rob Bell

  Fear, Real, Track

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• Individual price and wage changes will not be prevented. In the main, price changes will simply be concealed by taking the form of changes in discounts, service, and quality, and wage changes, in overtime, perquisites and so on…. But to whatever extent the freeze is enforced, it will do harm by distorting relative prices.

  Milton Friedman

  Quality, Individual, Form

  Milton Friedman (1975). “There's no such thing as a free lunch”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age.

  Eben Moglen

  Race, Zuckerberg, Age

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• Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Matter, Able

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1046, Wordsworth Editions

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