Quotes About Harm

If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

If the Lord chooses to make nothing of our transgressions, then they are nothing. Or whatever reality they have is trivial and conditional beside the exquisite primary fact of existence. Of course the Lord would wipe them away, just as I wipe dirt from your face, or tears. After all, why should the Lord bother much over these snitches that are no part of His Creation? Well, there are a good many reasons why He should. We human beings do real harm. History could make a stone weep.

Harm to you is not harm to me in the strict sense, and that is a great part of the problem. He could knock me down the stairs and I would have worked out the theology for forgiving him before I reached the bottom. But if he harmed you in the slightest way, I'm afraid theology would fail me.

And everything is vulnerable to harm, one way or another. Everybody is vulnerable. It's kind of horrible when you think about it. All that breakage, without so much as an intention behind it half the time. All that tantalizing fragility.

We human beings do real harm. History could make a stone weep.

No tengo gran admiración por los mártires, señor Casement. Ni por los héroes. Esas gentes que se inmolan por la verdad o la justicia a menudo hacen más daño del que quieren remediar

Among the colonizers there would be not only altruists such as Dr. Livingstone but abusive scoundrels as well, but in the final analysis, the benefits would far outweigh the harm. Life in Africa was showing him that things were not as clear as they had been in theory. In

Esas gentes que se inmolan por la verdad o la justicia a menudo hacen más daño del que quieren remediar.

Bad people are dangerous but forgiving them is too.

How could a nation built upon 'Give me liberty or give me death,' 'all men are created equal,' and 'of the people, by the people, for the people' have ended up waging a shameful, disgraceful war against a people who had done us no harm nor ever would or could?" he wrote.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The religious impulse can be very dangerous. It damages, sometimes permanently.

Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good.

If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.

Whatever fool had penned the nonsense that words could do no harm should be condemned to Tophet's lowest fiery pit. For they did far more damage than mere broken bones that eventually healed. Furious

He said the proclivities for indulging in gossip stems from the same impulse as the reading of novels, only gossip touches on real people. Therein lies the harm.

Caro told Una, Josie's belief in her innocence is her warrant for doing harm. Una said, Like America.

ourselves, the man raised his voice to say. The only moral, meaningful course for a civilization facing its own end: To learn how to ask forgiveness and to atone in some tiny measure for the devastating harm we had done to our human family and to our fellow creatures and to the beautiful earth. To love and forgive one another as best we

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Fate will never punish a man for returning harm first done to him. Deceit matched by deceit, the tables turned: treachery pays you back in pain, not kindness.

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.