Quotes About Harm

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

Thus ambitious spirits in a commonwealth, when they transgress their bounds, are apt to do more harm than good.

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.

Your vicious enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unbridled soul.

False friends are worse than open enemies

A bad rumour flies on wings.

The tongue that belongs to a fake friend is sharper than a knife.

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

It only takes a drop of poison to turn what is sound to something rotten and corrupt." -p. 201

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

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

What do I mean when I say 'suspended animation'? It is the process by which animals de-animate, appear dead and then can wake up again without being harmed. OK, so here is the sort of big idea: If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

The effect of letting someone sue without showing harm is obvious: It makes it really easy to sue.

One of the common responses to criticism of psychics is to suggest that even if their powers are illusory, there is no harm done. After all, the audience seem to enjoy the show and Sally and the theatres certainly enjoy the profits.

I'm never going to own anything can hurt me.

I suppose I have done a certain amount of harm, since I allowed myself to be tempted into action. It seemed innocent enough, but all action is bound to be harmful. It is devilish. That is why this world is evil upon the whole. But I have done with it! I shall never lift a little finger again. At one time I thought that intelligent observation of facts was the best way of cheating the time which is allotted to us whether we want it or not; but now I, have done with observation, too.

HAVING DEVELOPED SOME CONFIDENCE AND FAITH IN THE possibility of awakening, we are now faced with a very pragmatic question, "What do I do?" The Buddha responded to this question with incisive and disarming simplicity: "Do no harm, act for the good, purify the mind. This is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

You will hurt your foot.

Love is not enough to keep us from harm.

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.