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Quotes About Harm

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
What we will do is we'll say, 'Okay, you have your page, and if you're not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.' But that doesn't mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
There are very tangible harms that come from manipulating people. In the United States, the public health response to Covid-19 has been inhibited by widespread disinformation about the existence of the virus or false claims about different kinds of treatment that do not work.
~ Christopher Wylie
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
~ Ferdinand Marcos
This is not a country where we look lightly at tens of millions of dollars in lost direct costs in restructuring entire industries, and say, well, that's not irreparable harm, it doesn't concern us.
~ Eugene Scalia
It's hard to overstate the lasting harm Mr. Tillerson's tenure will do to America's diplomacy.
~ Antony Blinken
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
~ Robert Carlyle
There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory.
~ Tzipi Livni
Terrorism is a tactic in which the primary objective is to produce fear, rather than direct harm. Terrorist attacks are, first and foremost, psychological operations designed to alter behavior amongst the terrorized in a way that the actors believe will serve them.
~ Bret Weinstein
Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.
~ Elton Gallegly
We know that after September 11, there were still terrorists around. We do get continuing information that they're intent on causing some damage and harm to not only U.S. interests but allied interests.
~ Richard Armitage
We must inflict upon terrorists and their families critical economic harm.
~ Moshe Kahlon
People who are going to do us harm are never going to register guns. Terrorists, you believe they're going to register guns? Why, no. Goodness, alive, are you crazy?
~ Richard Shelby
I think the fact that white churches produced such a strong sense of safety and security for those of us who were inside the institution Is why it is so hard for white Christians to see the harm it did to those who were outside it, particularly African Americans, and the other kinds of damage it did to us, numbing our own moral sensibilities and limiting our religious development.
~ Robert P. Jones
So warped, however, are the standards by which men measure criminality that players of these games are more apt to be regarded as "pillars of society" than dangerous lunatics who should be exiled to remote islands where they can do no harm to themselves or others.
~ Robert S. de Ropp
This was a momentous incident, for it would set a pattern: good became identified with anything that redounded to the benefit of Muslims, and evil with anything that harmed them, without reference to any larger moral standard. Moral absolutes were swept aside in favor of the overarching principle of expediency.
~ Robert Spencer
Finally, the fundamental flaw, which will ultimately destroy this prohibition as it did the last one, is that criminal sanctions cannot, and should not attempt to, prohibit personal conduct which does no harm to others.
~ Robert Sweet
To make my body a temple pure Wherein I dwell serene; To care for the things that shall endure, The simple, sweet and clean. To oust out envy and hate and rage, To breathe with no alarm; For Nature shall be my anchorage, And none shall do me harm.
~ Robert W. Service
When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it's easy to stay silent.
~ Robert Walser
Savage words: how one can destroy someone by simply sitting there in an armchair reading a book, not too far from him.
~ Roberto Calasso
How many infants are born each day - innocent, sweet, boundless - only to be ruined by the very people who have given them life?
~ Lisa Gardner
stupidity can be as bad as malice
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
If a man or woman is inclined to murder or violence, owning a gun is not important. There are always a dozen things about with which a man can be killed. For
~ Louis L'Amour
They haf no right to put poison in the sugarplum, and let the small ones eat it.
~ Louisa May Alcott