Quotes About Harm

She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm...

Why will you not just accept what is? You have done as you will in my domain. I have exacted no price for actions that would be the death of any other. Why? I am your enemy here! It does little harm.

Confess. Admit that you've sinned—that you have harmed your own human being in some way. Repent—that is, make an agreement to stop. Do penance, which means to offer yourself forgiveness. Modify your behavior from that moment forward.

Los chismes son magia negra de la peor clase, porque son puro veneno.

But when the choice is between doing nothing and doing harm, surely nothing is the wiser option?

This court finds that no one should have to wait until they are dead to prove that they are in harm's way.

Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.

Everyone causes harm," Calvin said. "Sometimes we hurt others, and sometimes we hurt ourselves. If you've caused a problem, you learn and do better. You become smarter for next time. And you undo what harm you can.

Living in a mortal world involves pain.... Entropy presides here. Everything moves toward dissolution and death. But physical damage is the lesser problem. The damage to our hearts is far more difficult to repair. We experience loss, disappointments, failure, mistakes. People deliberately harm us. Other wounds are self-inflicted. with experience we learn that we cannot harm another without also harming ourselves. ~The Traveler

All too often, the Christian industrial project reminds me less of a religion and more of the tobacco, fossil fuel, and weapons industries: willing to harm millions to keep their business going.3

do we Christians want to continue to enfranchise scoundrels who hold the right beliefs but perpetuate harm?

This rediscovery and rearticulation are necessary because so many elements of our Christian practice have lost their meaning and joy for us. For example, I can no longer sing "Onward Christian Soldiers" or other militant Christian hymns, knowing the harm done by the fusion of militaristic Christianity and colonialism.

We can never atone for all the harm we cause in our lifetimes. We each make decisions based on personal priorities. In the process, people are invariably shunted aside. Someone suffers. —teaching of the new Philosophical Academy

Shai-Hulud defends his treasure, Selim said, his deep blue eyes distant but full of energy. The Zensunni believe sandworms are devils but Shaitan works more harm through one man Like Naib Dhartha than through all the creatures of the desert.

The important question regarding spirituality is not which God you follow but are you true to your soul? Are you living a spiritual life? Are you a kind person here on earth, getting joy from your existence, causing no harm, and doing good to others?

Then you're saying this theater isn't haunted? I'm saying so what if it is? said Edgar. People have been saying the place is haunted for nearly fifty years now, and in all that time the ghost hasn't done one bit of harm. Why should she start now? Maybe she doesn't like the script, Ken Abbott said. Thanks a lot, Ken, said Alan Bland.

is intended to break the spirit, to render harmless those who are thought to be harmful.

The destruction of the world depends on the willingness of the people in it to harm each other in any way necessary to achieve their own ends and to further their own causes. And we got that part down pat, don't we? We know how to hurt each other and how to think up whatever excuses we need to justify it. We're victims and executioners both.

Humans populated the world now, and they had no understanding of magic. All they understood was how to savage the land, how to take what they wanted and not care about the harm it caused.

The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.