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Quotes About Harm

There are actually real, flesh-and-blood people who have been harmed by powerful evildoers in the church. Who will show mercy to them? Who will show them the compassion they so desperately need? Will it be the Christians who are so busy "not judging" the ones who have committed egregious harm?
~ Rebecca H. Davis
We continue to hope that a way can be found for Benchmark to move forward, having profited so handsomely from the work of Travis Kalanick and many others, and to do so without inflicting gratuitous harm on the company which we have all supported, and for which we continue to have the greatest expectations.
~ Shervin Pishevar
I'm not really concerned if people have this purist view of the New York Supreme thing. If they think opening our shop in Paris is going to harm our brand, then we can't really be that strong of a brand.
~ James Jebbia
Besides, it seems to mee that spreading the doctrine of doing good can harm no one.' Nakor shook his head. 'Would that it were true. Men have been put to death for preaching good.
~ Raymond E. Feist
The old warrior reared up, like a startled horse, and Pug's own mount shied away. "Then, mad black one, northward go. Death waits there. Find that out you shall. Those who in the ice live none welcome, and the Lasura no contest with madmen seek. Those who do a mad one harm are by the gods harm done. Touched by the gods you are." He dashed off.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Besides, it seems to me that spreading the doctrine of doing good can harm no one.' Nakor shook his head. 'Would that it were true. Men have been put to death for preaching good.
~ Raymond E. Feist
R]apists tend to lie, a lot...
~ Rebecca Solnit
Even if religion did no other harm in itself, its wanton and carefully nurtured divisiveness—its deliberate and cultivated pandering to humanity's natural tendency to favour in-groups and shun out-groups—would be enough to make it a significant force for evil in the world.
~ Richard Dawkins
That's right. People. It's all people. People and their stupid fucking groups. Show me an individual decision maker whose decisions have harmed me, and I'll melt his stack to slag. Show me a group with the united purpose of harming me and I'll take them all down if I can. But don't expect me to waste time and effort on abstract hate.
~ Richard K. Morgan
So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry.
~ Richard K. Morgan
It's the curse of the motherless child. We seek comfort from the very people who do us harm.
~ Karin Slaughter
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.
~ Theodore Parker
Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.
~ Janet Morris
A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.
~ Werner Herzog
It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.
~ George Herbert
When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.
~ Markus Zusak
They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan