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Quotes About Harm

Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias. Remember it. 'Do that which is good,and no harm shall come to thee.
~ Arthur Miller
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Ese era el problema con los parientes. Al igual que los médicos aviesos, sabían dónde hacer más daño al tocar.
~ Arundhati Roy
Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need. Lacking a coherent view of how people might live successfully all the way to their very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled by the imperatives of medicine, technology, and strangers.
~ Atul Gawande
In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality. If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it. Patients
~ Atul Gawande
Yet given how much surgery is now done—Americans today undergo an average of seven operations in their lifetime, with surgeons performing more than fifty million operations annually—the amount of harm remains substantial. We continue to have upwards of 150,000 deaths following surgery every year
~ Atul Gawande
If learning is necessary but causes harm, then above all it ought to apply to everyone alike.
~ Atul Gawande
Having already done more harm than the bullet had
~ Atul Gawande
In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality. If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it.
~ Atul Gawande
Mostly, the experiments did more harm than good.
~ Atul Gawande
The doctors were often not recognized to be dangerous until they had done considerable damage.
~ Atul Gawande
In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality.
~ Atul Gawande
other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality. If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it.
~ Atul Gawande
They'd not only nearly killed the man but also failed to recognize how.
~ Atul Gawande
My brother had very specific likes and dislikes. Basically, he liked anything until it harmed him and then he was wary.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I was a little afraid you might get all macho about not exposing your wife to danger. I am. I wouldn't want you to accidentally suffer any harm while beating the shit out of me for trying to keep you out of the party. You could forget and hit me on the head, and hurt your knuckles.
~ Spider Robinson
Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words can close those love bites. it's the other way around, that's the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them.
~ Stephen King
Semi-automatics have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in awhile, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use – their only other use – is to kill people
~ Stephen King
To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job.
~ M.H. Rakib
The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.
~ Sigrid Undset
Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.
~ John Wesley
You can't divide the country up into sections and have one rule for one section and one rule for another, and you can't encourage people's prejudices. You have to appeal to people's best instincts, not their worst ones. You may win an election or so by doing the other, but it does a lot of harm to the country.
~ Jon Meacham
an understanding that choices, once made, are absulote, that the realm of freedom exists only in the present and in the future, and that more harm than good is done in reimagining that some choice in the past might have been dismissed in favour of a better option. This kind of thinking will lead only to regret, to the rotting of a man from inside out.
~ Jonathan Butler