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Quotes About Harm

the greatest harm from drug treatment is not so much the toxicity or side effects as it is the suppression effect.
~ James L. Oschman
Whenever I hear and see a politician or a military leader, a bank of American flags at his back, trying to convince us of the rightness of a policy or a deed that will cause harm to others; when I am almost convinced myself that setting humanitarian concern in abeyance can be justified in the interest of a greater good, I pause and ask myself what my brain-smoked friends would have to say.
~ James Lee Burke
I didn't intend to hurt her. But when you deal with those who have chosen to inflict great harm on themselves and their loved ones on a daily basis, whatever you say to them about the reality of their lives will either prove inadequate or offend them deeply, and leave you with feelings of guilt and depression. It's not unlike walking through cobweb.
~ James Lee Burke
We are the Conservative and Unionist party. No Conservative would do anything to harm the union, and that crucially includes Northern Ireland.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
The FBI relies on FISA every day in national security investigations to prevent terrorists and foreign intelligence services from harming the United States.
~ Christopher A. Wray
Existing antitrust law in the United States addresses mainly the harm from price gouging, not the other kinds of harm caused by these platforms, such as stifling innovation and undermining the institutions of democracy.
~ Paul Romer
We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.
~ Mike Crapo
It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.
~ Dave Matthews
A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly
~ Dennis Prager
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
~ Frank Moore Colby
Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
It all comes down to people in the end. All the global policies and grand schemes. They all come down to what we do to people, whether we help or harm them.
~ Thomas H. Cook
Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
~ Thomas Sowell
Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.
~ Tim Bowler
The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one's political future.
~ Mark McKinnon
I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
~ Kate Christensen
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
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
~ Oscar Wilde
Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
~ Oscar Wilde
I understand the world can be cruel place and there are people out there counting on naive kids like you to take advantage of. Don't just think because it's video games people can't get hurt.
~ Cory Doctorow
What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.
~ D.H. Lawrence
And that was the killer who said: 'Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one—one that would do nobody any harm.
~ Dale Carnegie
But it is wonderful what mischief may be done by only two words
~ Walter Scott
see the part of you that's as constant as a spirit or a thought. This is your essence, and it's incapable of being harmed in any way.
~ Wayne W. Dyer