Quotes About Harm

The cure cannot be worse than the disease.

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.

How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful—just stupid.)

On a more personal level, it is very likely that at some time in your life you will come into painful contact with a psychopath. For your own physical, psychological, and financial well-being it is crucial that you know how to identify the psychopath, how to protect yourself, and how to minimize the harm done to you.

La ambición del corazón es pura. No compite con nadie y no hace daño a nadie. De hecho, le sirve a uno de tal manera que sirve a otros al mismo tiempo.

We dare not harm this little girl, he said to them, for she is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil. All we can do is carry her to the castle of the Wicked Witch and leave her there.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

God save us from people who mean well.

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

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Magic!' cried an old man. 'Tis sorcery, and we are undone!' 'Not so, ' I told him, 'Sorcery cannot harm good Christians.' 'But I am a miserable sinner, ' he wailed.

Bad theology kills

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

Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.

Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

Mogo living brings about true freedom. When you have the inner conviction to do the most good and the least harm, you are free to say no to media, social, and peer pressures. You are free from a nagging sense that your life does not have value or meaning. You are free to imagine and then create a truly successful (in the deepest meaning on the word) life. You are free to be at peace with yourself and all those whom your life touches.

They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.