Quotes About Harm

As killing as the canker to the rose.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in neither case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

If any one does an act hurtful to others, there is a primâ facie case for punishing him, by law, or, where legal penalties are not safely applicable, by general disapprobation

the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. The latter case, it is true, requires a much more cautious exercise of compulsion than the former. To make any one answerable for doing evil to others, is the rule; to make him answerable for not preventing evil, is, comparatively speaking, the exception.

We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm." His

Hatred/living in your/one's past is self abuse i.e. it's a habit/life style that causes damage/harm to your own self/oneself. So, desist from that.

All these years later, I recognize this as the way that winners often speak of those they have harmed beyond repair. Trying to find some way to live with what we have done, we find solace in the idea that their doom was their own doing.

But the truth is incapable of real harm. It is we who do harm, when we refuse to face what is real, because it's uncomfortable or inconvenient.

How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one important fact when we think love is enough: Love and respect aren't the same thing. Love is fusion. As a baby, you belong to your parents, you're extension of them. Respect is differentiation: you belong to yourself, and you're an extension of no one. Differentiation is essential for happiness of adults.

The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.

All kinds of evil flourish in suspicion. It is a perpetual breeder of the qualities that instantly work for evil, including secrecy and resentment.

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

Our long memories hold the stories of what our people accomplished, but they also hold the prejudices, the injustices, the harm that we've received from others.

Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good.

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people - if a gun is not present, it's generally more difficult to do irreparable harm.

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.