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Quotes About Harm

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.
~ Nat Hentoff
I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
~ Plato
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
~ Plautus
He who injures one man threatens many.
~ Publilius Syrus
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.
~ Richard M. Weaver
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.
~ Hesiod
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
~ Hesiod
"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."
~ Iain Banks
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.
~ Isaac Asimov
Man has injured every animal he has touched.
~ John Muir
When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm.
~ Marcia Muller
I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.
~ Eric Cantona
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Witches aren't like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it's wicked of them to say we don't. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.
~ Terry Pratchett
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.
~ Janny Wurts, Peril's Gate
Anger is enough to destroy you
~ Noormohammad Bhuayan
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
~ Rod Serling
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
~ Henry George
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.
~ Milton Friedman
An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year, " says Zoroaster.
~ Voltaire