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Quotes About Harm

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
~ Bertrand Russell
I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.
~ Bertrand Russell
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
~ Bertrand Russell
El daño que hace una religión es de dos clases, una dependiente de la clase de creencia que se considera que se debe profesar, y otra dependiente de los dogmas particulares en que se cree.
~ Bertrand Russell
Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they encourage creativeness rather than possessiveness? Do they embody or promote a spirit of reverence between human beings? Do they preserve self-respect? In
~ Bertrand Russell
I think that these is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached
~ Bertrand Russell
Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.
~ Martha Nussbaum
Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal - it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.
~ Mike Pompeo
How can government reduce the frequency and the severity of future catastrophes? Companies that have the potential to create significant harm must be required to pay for the costs they inflict, either before or after the fact. Economists agree on this general approach. The problem is in putting such a policy into effect.
~ Richard Thaler
Of all the manifestations of Resistance, most only harm ourselves. Criticism and cruelty harm others as well.
~ Steven Pressfield
If you find yourself criticizing other people, you're probably doing it out of Resistance. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.   Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. Watch yourself. Of all the manifestations of Resistance, most only harm ourselves. Criticism and cruelty harm others as well.
~ Steven Pressfield
Resistance also told me I shouldn't seek to instruct, or put myself forward as a purveyor of wisdom; that this was vain, egotistical, possibly even corrupt, and that it would work harm to me in the end. That scared me. It made a lot of sense.
~ Steven Pressfield
If you find yourself criticizing other people, you're probably doing it out of Resistance. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. Watch yourself. Of all the manifestations of Resistance, most only harm ourselves. Criticism and cruelty harm others as well.
~ Steven Pressfield
She was right about one thing: the harm in the world is done by those who feel disenfranchised and abused. Contented people (as a rule) don't kite checks, rob banks, or kill their fellow citizens.
~ Sue Grafton
Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.
~ Sue Grafton
She was right about one thing: the harm in the world is done by those who feel disenfranchised and abused. Contented people (as a rule) don't kite checks, rob banks, or kill their fellow citizens.
~ Sue Grafton
Without a full understanding of the harm caused by war, it is impossible to understand the most profitable way of conducting it
~ Sun Tzu
Whether it's "they didn't mean to do any harm," or "they did the best they could," these apologies obscure the fact that these parents abdicated their responsibilities to their children.
~ Susan Forward
In many cases, I'm sure that no harmful intent existed, but speculating on intent is a waste of time. It's the results that count. If harm was done by inadequate parents, the intent is irrelevant. Inadequate parents are responsible both for what they did do and for what they didn't.
~ Susan Forward
that you never let a client leave your office if you have any sense that she may do herself, or someone else, harm.
~ Susan Lukas
Yes, agreed Childermass, very great harm! For while he was in the pantry he ate three meat-pies. And two cream cheeses, added Lucas. Mr. Norrell was forced to admit to himself that this did not seem much like the actions of a great magician
~ Susanna Clarke
ecco la mia storia in parole semplici, ho subito un danno: le persone danneggiate sono pericolose
~ Josephine Hart
Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals
~ Joy Williams
Es más fácil no hacerse mucho daño haciéndose un poquito de daño.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado