Quotes About Harm

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

Expansion in the mission of the federal government has created a belief in its effective power. Its ineffectiveness is therefore seen not as a systemic failure but as the result of a deliberate failure designed to benefit the powerful and harm the many.

When the poor ghosts have gone, what remains are ordinary obligations and ordinary interests. One can live quietly and try to do tiny good things and harm no one.

How much harm, eddying outward in fateful circles, Clement was beginning to foresee.

Yo me hago daño y me saboteo a mí mismo para no hacer daño a nadie que no se lo merezca.

Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.

A robot must not hurt a human being, unless he can think of a way to prove it is for the human being's ultimate good after all.

If a robot can be manipulated into doing harm to a man, it means only that we must extend the powers of the positronic brain. One might say we ought to make the human better. That is impossible, so we will make the robot more foolproof.

There can be no serious conflicts on Earth, in which one group or another can seize more power than it has for what it thinks is its own good despite the harm to Mankind as a whole, while the Machines rule.

Un robot no debe dañar a un ser humano o, por su inacción, dejar que un ser humano sufra daño.

Las Tres Leyes de la Robótica de Asimov» y son las siguientes: 1. Un robot no puede hacer daño a un ser humano, o, por medio de la inacción, permitir que un ser humano sea lesionado. 2. Un robot debe obedecer las órdenes recibidas por los seres humanos, excepto si estas órdenes entrasen en conflicto con la Primera Ley. 3. Un robot debe proteger su propia existencia en la medida en que esta protección no sea incompatible con la Primera y la Segunda Ley.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.

It turns out that we can build perfectly secure software, and yet people can still get hurt.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.