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Quotes About Harm

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you. —Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Take away your judging thought, and then there is taken away the complaint, I have been harmed. Take away the complaint, I have been harmed, and the harm is taken away.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Inlatura parerea: este inlaturat "am fost vatamat"; inlatura "am fost vatamat" este inlaturat si prejudiciul.
~ Marcus Aurelius
What is not harmful to the city does not harm the citizen either. Whenever you imagine you have been harmed, apply this criterion: if the city is not harmed by this, then I have not been harmed either. If on the other hand harm is done to the city, you should not be angry, but demonstrate to the doer of this harm what he has failed to see himself. p42
~ Marcus Aurelius
What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.
~ Margaret Atwood
Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.
~ Margaret Atwood
But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched
~ Margaret Atwood
She said, What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know an hurt you very much.
~ Margaret Atwood
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
~ Edward Tufte
People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'
~ Dylan Moran
In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
~ Jack Kevorkian
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
~ Larry Flynt
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
~ Charles A. Reich
These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office: What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them. I under[stand] that failure is surely one of these strange angels.
~ Anne Lamott
We'll hardly be in a position to discover much if they know you are married to a policeman!" she pointed out. "Let alone the very policeman who is investigating the murders. Added to which, it will do no harm for the general to see you as still unmarried.
~ Anne Perry
Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
~ Anne Rice
Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain, suffering, or confusion. All evil comes from this. This is the root of all evil.
~ Anne Rice
That is one of the worst aspects of evil, that it always involves the death of possible good, always proceeds from the destruction of something that might have been so much better.
~ Anne Rice
This man was truly like a scorpion, a poisonous sting when one least expected it.
~ Anne Stuart
Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.'
~ Anne Tyler
To make matters worse, politicians occasionally accuse rivals of deliberately trying to harm their own country—a charge so destructive to group unity that most past societies would probably have just punished it as a form of treason.
~ Sebastian Junger
Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths.
~ Shakespeare