Quotes About Harm

Losing what we have can only do us real harm when we feel we can't create it, or something equally valuable or compelling, again, and that ability resides squarely in our imagination.

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

The promises of the future cannot undo the harm of the past.

There should be no necessary contradiction between recognizing the harms women suffer from male dominance as well as their courage and resourcefulness in dealing with them. Otherwise feminist critique might have to be abandoned altogether on the grounds that it is insulting to women.

Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Las mentiras solo acarreaban sufrimiento.

and yet, in the end, did Klara Hitler's sickly son ever fire a gun? One hollow, hateful little an. One last awful thought: all the harm he ever did was done for him by others.

It is a kind of rape.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Justice does not exist in the abstract," Epicurus flatly asserts; it is just "a compact to not harm or be harmed";

Think about what you could be stopping—someone who uses racist policies to hurt or kill people. Someone who could do untold damage to the environment. Someone who could start an illegal war to distract from his political problems. You know, Vi, that he's capable of that.

Sana, sende gördükleri iyi ÅŸeyler yüzünden zarar vermek, seni incitmek isteyen insanlar da olacakt?r.

Don't let strangers touch you. And yet it is seldom strangers, I learned long before I was a teenager, who do you harm. It is always the ones closest to us: the suave chauffeur, the skilled photographer, the kind music teacher, the good friend's sober and dignified husband, the pious man of God. They are the ones your parents trust, whom they don't want to believe anything against.

And it's safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm's way.

People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way, and them saying bless your heart.

People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way, and them saying bless your heart.

People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way

Having spent many years trying to define the essentials of trust, I arrived at the position that if two people could say two things to each other and mean them, then there was the basis for real trust. The two things were "I mean you no harm" and "I seek your greatest good." —JIM MEEHAN, BRITISH PSYCHOLOGIST AND POET

Just as Snow was concocting his theory of cholera as a waterborne agent that had to be ingested to do harm, Chadwick was building an elaborate scheme that would deliver the cholera directly to the mouths of Londoners. (A modern bio-terrorist couldn't have come up with a more ingenious and far-reaching scheme).

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

harming the other are massively outweighed by the disadvantages we would suffer in being harmed (yet another implication of the Law of Entropy: harms are easier to inflict and have larger effects than benefits).

I daresay the environmental movement has done more harm with its opposition to genetic engineering than with any other thing we've been wrong about. We've starved people, hindered science, hurt the natural environment, and denied our own practitioners a crucial tool.

Anyone who is equipped to hunt, harvest crops, chop firewood, or prepare salad has the means to damage a lot of human flesh.

It's highly unpleasant to be gassed, but then it's just as unpleasant to be perforated or shredded by pieces of metal.