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Quotes About Harm

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
~ T.S. Eliot
Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important.
~ T.S. Eliot
It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
~ T.S. Eliot
The ants are bad The Bear the ants?Tahir Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down. Osman.
~ Tahir Shah
Because the real wolf comes to kill. To steal. To destroy.
~ Ted Dekker
A dismal demon who was mostly mouth, he was ready at a moment's notice to offer misinformation on any subject. And, while he often tumbled heavily, it was never he who was hurt, but, rather, the unfortunate person on whom he fell.
~ Juster
Pan jeszcze wyrzÄ…dzi wiele krzywdy innym, pokaleczy Pan wiele osób, i to w obronie przed wÅ'asnymi obawami, wÄ…tpliwoÅ›ciami i podejrzeniami.
~ K. Bala
Our right to practice our faith freely is respected up to the point where doing so involves harming others.
~ Pete Buttigieg
When issues emerge that might harm a campaign, like the Clinton e-mails, you have to get all the facts out right away, but not before you have all the facts.
~ Bob Beckel
A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy
~ Francis Bacon
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 after truth. So it does more harm than good.
~ Francis Bacon
O'Mara, if you waste the gifts you have, I'll personally scourge you. That's a warning." Ronan hoisted his rucksack feebly. "And if I don't?" "I'll say, 'Good man.' Now go and mend the holes in your life. And do it decently, for Christ's sake. Don't act like a boor. Piss out any vinegar in your bloodstream. No one meant you any harm.
~ Frank Delaney
If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.
~ Fred B. Craddock
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
~ Frederic Bastiat
Even a well-founded suspicion more or less degrades a man. His suspicion may be verified, and he may escape some material harm by having cherished the suspicion. But he is unavoidably the worse man in consequence of having entertained it.
~ Frederick William Faber
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
When we forget God we make as big a mistake as we do when we insist that our concept of God is the only one that matters. When we forget God we treat one another and the world we live in as objects. We fail to recognize that whenever we harm someone else or the world we live in, we only harm ourselves.
~ Brad Warner
Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now. Sometimes compassion may even mean doing nothing at all. Lots of loving people in this world go out of their way to "try to help"--but often they do more harm than good. Stupid helpfulness is not compassion either.
~ Brad Warner
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
~ Bram Stoker
painful—sometimes they cause irrevocable harm—but welcome to Earth.
~ Brandon Mull
There is a myth flourishing in the church today that has caused incalculable harm: once converted, fully converted. In other words, once I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, an irreversible, sinless future beckons. Discipleship will be an untarnished success story; life will be an unbroken upward spiral toward holiness.
~ Brennan Manning
Violence in human relationship is so utterly destructive because it not only harms the other but also drives the self into a vicious circle asking for more and more when less and less is received.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
the arrows of fortune ….. derive their force from the velocity with which they are discharged; for, when they approach you by slow and perceptible degrees, they have but very little power to do you mischief.
~ Henry Fielding
slander is a more cruel weapon than a sword, as the wounds which the former gives are always incurable.
~ Henry Fielding