Quotes About Harm

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

For men do harm either out of fear or out of hatred.

People talk about truth like it's the solution to all of life's problems. I've been around long enough to know that isn't the case, and that sometimes truth can do more harm than good.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

When you're not attached to anything, nothing can harm you. When people become attached, they can be harmed. I know this, so I don't attach myself to anything, really.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Nothing could do more harm to America's national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible.

If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.

Edward had a personal horror of violence and never endorsed or excused it, though in a documentary he made about the conflict he said that actions like the bombing of pilgrims at Tel Aviv airport 'did more harm than good,' which I remember thinking was (a) euphemistic and (b) a slipshod expression unworthy of a professor of English.

Reason is the Devil's harlot, who can do nought but slander and harm whatever God says and does. —MARTIN LUTHER

A thousand years of torture rule, The knave who dares to harm a fool." I

If any honor existed in war, he concluded, it was in fighting to protect others from harm.

It always seems easier to do nothing, when the harm is don elsewhere," Dakon said. "They know their young ones will either learn a lesson and limp home – or die and stop being a problem – or prove successful. The worst that could happen is a bit of a diplomatic hiccup in history.

Dannyl nodded. "But there was only one talisman, wasn't there? Sometimes all it takes is one man and a little knowledge to do great things." The king smiled crookedly. "Yes. And sometimes it only takes one man and a little knowledge to do a great deal of harm.

He had always believed that robes and swords did not go together well. There were already too many ways a magician could harm another person. Why add a non-magical one to the list?

she was the kindest of souls; if she had ever done harm to any human being it was because the social system was too complicated for her to understand the consequences of her actions.

Which translated, Stacey thought cynically, to 'If you're going to break the law – what I don't know can't hurt me.

Sometimes citizens can do as much harm to their commonwealth by violating custom and tradition as by breaking laws.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.