Harm Quotes - Page 27

• Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Done, May

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.199, Penguin

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• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wall, House, Graffiti

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• There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.

  Allan Bloom

  Winning, Views, Parent

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• The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Medicine, Easy, Legislation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.219

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• ... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Religious, Humble, Men

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• There are times when even justice brings harm with it.

  Sophocles

  Justice

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

  David Mamet

  Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

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• A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  Harold MacMillan

  Forever, May, Cliche

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• I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

  Linus Pauling

  Doctors, Vitamins, Physicians

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• Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  Sarah Vowell

  Mean, Fbi Agents, President

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Aug 31, 2008

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• Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Running, People, Risk

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• The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?

  John Perry

  Book, School, Boys

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• When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Destiny, Effort, Reverence For Life

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• It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Ass

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1429, GENERAL PRESS

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• A sadhak (one who does spiritual practice) will not have time to indulge in gossip. They will not feel like talking to anyone in a harsh manner. Those who always indulge in faultfinding will never achieve spiritual progress. Do not harm anyone by thoughts, words or deeds. Be compassionate towards all beings. Ahimsa (nonviolence) is the highest dharma (duty).

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Talking, Practice

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• Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

  John Lennon

  Pain, Sadness, Dope

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• The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

  Joyce Cary

  Children, Teaching, Punishment

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• Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

  Julian Baggini

  Emotional, Expression, Boss

  "Calm? Why should I be calm?" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2009.

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• Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Iraq, Target, Want

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• I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

  Peter Cushing

  Years, Twenties, Roles

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• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  Barbara Deming

  Cutting, People, Littles

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Israel, Done, Damage

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• I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

  Andre Balazs

  Fashion, Reality, Thinking

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• Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Giving, Bullets

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.

  Jim Stafford

  Flower, Smoking, Alcohol

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