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Quotes About Harm

In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm
~ James Whitcomb Riley
Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief.
~ Jane Austen
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief
~ Jane Austen
Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.
~ Eric Schneiderman
One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'
~ Imran Amed
Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.
~ Jack Keane
The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.
~ Aaron Sorkin
This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.
~ Lionel Blue
I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations.
~ Paul Watson
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
~ Florence Nightingale
We should aim to make ours a world where people feel free to do things they enjoy, even if others are mildly inconvenienced, but also one where we all refrain from harming other people if the effort involved to avoid harming them is small.
~ Tim Harford
Dejar de hacer algo por el mero hecho de que puedes hacerte daño es una razón nefasta para no actuar.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority. "I found so much obedience," Milgram remembered, "that I hardly saw the need for taking the experiment to Germany.
~ Timothy Snyder
We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.
~ Timothy Snyder
Thrawn shrugged. "There are two ways to destroy a person, Jorj. Kill him, or ruin his reputation.
~ Timothy Zahn
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
~ Oscar Wilde
For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.
~ Oscar Wilde
Do you know 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. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sir John's temper since he has taken seriously to politics has become quite unbearable. Really, now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
~ Oscar Wilde
Read what is here. How could reading a letter harm you? There might even be something in it that pleases you. My secrets are carried, by these letters, over land and sea: even enemies read letters received from their enemies.
~ Ovid
I love little pussy; her coat is so warm; And if I don't hurt her, she'll do me no harm;
~ P.G. Wodehouse
words for doing harm. I have always remembered her counsel and followed it. My boil was surgically treated. A noticeable scar, left by the doctor's incision, is present today. On my right forearm is a constant reminder of the power in man's sheer word.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
La amistad, la compasión y la alegría clarifican y tranquilizan la mente. Deben practicarse tanto en la felicidad como en la desgracia, tanto con quienes nos ayudan como con aquellos que nos perjudican.
~ Patanjali
one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
~ Patricia Highsmith