Quotes About Harm

White dope would be meth, cocaine, heroine.

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

WHAT IS A witch? The standard scholarly definition of one was summed up in 1978 by a leading expert in the anthropology of religion, Rodney Needham, as 'someone who causes harm to others by mystical means'.

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people's lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women's faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.

The appeals judge said that pornography did all the harm we claimed--it promoted insult and injury, rape and assault, even caused women to have lower wages--and that these effects proved its power as speech; therefore, it had to be protected.

A dead program normally does a lot less damage than a crippled one.

Robert has never been kind to his body; he's worn it like an old leather coat tossed in oceans and left crumpled in corners.

Las mentiras son el equivalente social de los residuos tóxicos: todo el mundo es un potencial damnificado por su propagación.

What we condemn most in another person is the conscious intention to do harm.

Mort [Abramowitz] was the first person I came to know well who had helped to make foreign policy at such rarified levels, and over time he would drill into me a simple truth: governments can either do harm or do good. What we do, he would say, depends on one thing: the people. Institutions, big and small, were made up of people. People had values, and people made choices.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

This war that is coming—are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax

Which kind of safety are we endorsing here? Is it the safety from psychological "power over" and actual harm? Or is it the safety from being made uncomfortable by accurate information that challenges one's self-perception?

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

Never trust governments absolutely and always do what you can to prevent them from doing too much harm.

There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.