Quotes About Harm

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.

I am interested, in this book, in examining the phenomenon of overstating harm where it begins in its earlier stage as Conflict, before it escalates and explodes into tragedy.

Without in any way minimizing the role of violence in our lives, I am looking, simultaneously, at how a heightened rhetoric of threat that confuses doing nothing, normative conflict, and resistance with actual abuse, has produced a wide practice of over- stating harm.

Would it be all right, wondered Frances, if they were to allow themselves to be happy? Wouldn't it be a sort of insult to all those others who had been harmed? Or oughtn't they to do all they could—didn't they almost have a duty—to make one small brave thing happen at last?

And so you see it is love—not scorn, not malice; only love—that makes me harm her, in the end.

If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

The Wiccan ideal of morality is simple: do what you want, as long as you harm none.

It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more in apprehension than in reality,

It seems like we live and die by the names we are given, and we harm or heal by the names we give.

You became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. (2 Cor. 7:9–10 NIV)

Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here. No one will protect you, and people won't see any reason not to do you harm.

Everybody dreams about being harmed. It's easy. Much tougher to recover from the dream of harming…

In Israel, Shlomo Hillel called a press conference–broadcast by the BBC–to protest the executions. Hillel later reflected: 'I doubt whether in all the two thousand five hundred years of Jewish history in Iraq, there had been anything to match the sheer malevolence of executing nineJews on the same day.' Even the Egyptian Government condemned the hangings as 'doing harm