Quotes About Harm

Sin always splits the self to some degree, yes. You know that you have harmed yourself and others, but you probably are not going to come to terms with that because you're carrying on a charade of righteousness, even if you don't believe it. So confession is very deep in the process of discovering the soul.

Treasures are directly connected to our spirit, or will, and thus to our dignity as persons. It is, for example, very important for parents to respect the "treasure space" of children. It lies right at the center of the child's soul, and great harm can be done if it is not respected and even fostered.

Whatever country you live in, any law based on "glory" instead of real harm is dangerous. The glory of the nation, or the glory of the monarchy, or the glory of the superior race, or the glory of the church have been the cause of horrible wars and legally sanctioned discrimination. Any laws based solely on these glories should be morally denounced. They cause unnecessary harm.

Mere Morality can be summarized as: using instinct, law, and reason as guides, try to act with the intention of minimizing harm.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

The corporate approach to agriculture or manufacturing or medicine or war increasingly undertakes to help at the risk of harm, sometimes of great harm. And once the risk of harm is appraised as "acceptable," the result often is absurdity: We destroy a village in order to save it; we destroy freedom in order to save it; we destroy the world in order to live in it.

Little I'd ever teach a son, but hitting, Shooting, war, hunting, all the arts of hurting.

A dead body revenges not injuries.

escaped at last into a world of pure illusion in which, safe from any harm, she moved, lived, from attitude to attitude

El miedo no puede hacer más daño que un sueño.

Driving back on that hot June day past some government buildings, the Justice commented that he thought one of the great harms wrought by central air conditioning was that it had enabled the government in Washington to function during the summer, rather than closing up shop and leaving people alone the way it had formerly done.

Those who cause dissensions in order to injure other people are preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.

This and that." Often, for example, we'll get stuck in a mindset of prevention OR promotion. If we can do both, seeking out options that minimize harm AND maximize opportunity, we are more likely to uncover our full spectrum of choices.

you." If you have not generated the karma of injury, no harm can come to you. You cannot be attacked or be killed because you cannot reap what you have not sown. This is the reason why sometimes in an accident like a plane crash, many passengers die while only one or two miraculously escape uninjured.

A good silence never harmed anyone but speaking often causes harm.

But unsolicited advice is often deemed officious if not offensive, and therefore is quite as likely to do harm as good.

Her father wanted to insulate her, to shelter her from harm, and in doing so he denied her the inoculation required to survive.

The best vantage point for clarifying one's moral responsibility when harm has occurred is in the dirt and blood alongside the wounded party, not at the safe distance of a detached jurist debating the details of the relevant legislation.

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.