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Quotes About Harm

He's good and dead. He won't hurt these children again.
~ Harper Lee
El odio es una sombra negra y alargada. En muchos casos, ni siquiera quien lo siente sabe de dónde le viene. Es un arma de doble filo. Al mismo tiempo que herimos al contrincante nos herimos a nosotros mismos. Cuanto más grave es la herida que le infligimos, más grave es la nuestra. El odio es muy peligroso. Y, una vez que ha arraigado en nuestro corazón, extirparlo es una tarea titánica.
~ Haruki Murakami
I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?
~ David Shields
Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems - and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.
~ Craig Federighi
It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never causes harm.
~ Shaun King
I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.
~ Bill Gates
But until then, He has given us dominion, and with dominion comes the responsibility of defending ourselves. When God created the animals, He also instilled in them the instinct of self-preservation. And they defend themselves by either fight or flight. And when He created mankind, He also gave us the ability and the obligation to defend our lives and our families from all harm, whether evil or benign.
~ Skip Coryell
To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
~ Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
~ Socrates
A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.
~ Socrates
Nothing that other people can do to you can harm you enough to cancel out the benefit you bestow on yourself by acting rightly. It follows that bad people ultimately harm only themselves: nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death
~ Socrates
the only thing that Tonglen could harm is the one thing that has been harming you the most: your own ego, your self-grasping, self-cherishing mind, which is the root of suffering.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Der Missbrauch der Sprache lässt Böses in die Seele
~ Sokrates
One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one's own soul in the process.
~ Sophie Hannah
When someone sends something like that, they mean you harm. You ignore them at your peril.
~ Sophie Hannah
Fazemos tanto mal a nós e aos outros quando nos ofendemos quanto ao ofendermos.
~ Sophie Hannah
When justice is deliberately distorted and denied harm is done.
~ Sophie Hannah
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
~ Sophocles
An apparently good way to get more information about religious group would be through the media. In actual fact, it's probably the worst. Why? Because what makes hot news stories are things like controversy, opposing views, harm, blood, sex, big names, big money, scandal, ect.
~ Stan Koehler
A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
~ Ivan Panin
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
~ Francis Bacon
Truth hurts. But lies can kill.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld