Quotes About Harm

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.

I love her more than my life. What were you thinking, harming her? Didn't you understand that I'd have to kill you for it?

It's just an idea. There's no harm in ideas." "I ain't so sure of that," said Eddie Karl. "That Hitler had ideas.

A vice is a harm I do to myself in the pursuit of pleasure.

Know safety, no injury. No safety, know injury.

Every time a child is harmed, HUMANITY takes a backward step

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

In short, their unspeakable acts are a source of supreme pleasure to serial killers, who achieve the highest pitch of arousal—even to the point of orgasm—by inflicting savage harm on other human beings. Because doing terrible things feels so good to them, serial killers try not to get caught, so they can keep on enjoying their atrocities for as long as possible.

A little chloral in a glass of beer or coffee brings quick death. So does a well directed blow with a hammer or hatchet.

Perhaps," said Miss Ophelia, "it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

People fear what they can't understand and harm what they fear.

Thomas Szasz, writing in The Manufacture of Madness, points out that this "human tendency to embrace collective error—especially error that threatens harm and commands specific protective action—seems to be an integral part of man's social nature.

But as well as copy-shop piracy, there is another kind of "taking" that is more directly related to the Internet. That taking, too, seems wrong to many, and it is wrong much of the time. Before we paint this taking "piracy," however, we should understand its nature a bit more. For the harm of this taking is significantly more ambiguous than outright copying, and the law should account for that ambiguity, as it has so often done in the past.

The obvious point of Conrad's cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

Aunt Josephine had been so careful to avoid anything that she thought might harm her, but harm had still come her way.

As he has promised, no harm has come to the Baudelaire orphans in the Reptile Room, but great harm had come to Uncle Monty.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

You've caused a lot of damage here

The movement of this energy, if we can systematically observe it, is a way to understand what humans are receiving when we compete and argue and harm each other. When we control another human being we receive their energy. We fill up at the other's expense and the filling up is what motivates us. Look, I must learn how to see these energy fields.

Indian history is the antidote to the pious ethnocentrism of American exceptionalism, the notion that European Americans are God's chosen people. Indian history reveals that the United States and its predecessor British colonies have wrought great harm in the world. We must not forget this—not to wallow in our wrongdoing, but to understand and to learn, that we might not wreak harm again.