logo

Quotes About Harm

Nothing does harm if one`s mind is at peace.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you done to me?'—said her charming, pathetic, dead face.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The thought of the harm caused to her husband aroused in her a feeling like repulsion, and akin to what a drowning man might feel who has shaken off another man clinging to him. That man did drown. It was an evil action, of course, but it was the sole means of escape, and better not to brood over these fearful facts.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right; rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.
~ lesser elizabeth ii
Use magic in anger, and you will harm yourself much more quickly than you will harm your adversary.
~ Lev Grossman
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
~ Oscar Wilde
Like almost every major infrastructure, the Internet can be abused and its users harmed. We must, however, take great care that the cure for these ills does not do more harm than good. The benefits of the open and accessible Internet are nearly incalculable, and their loss would wreak significant social and economic damage.
~ Vint Cerf
The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.
~ Cliff Stearns
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
~ Samantha Power
The mission of Border Patrol agents to protect the United States from harm is being impeded by a crisis Congress has the ability to fix, but as usual, chooses not to.
~ Katie Pavlich
We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.
~ Darell Hammond
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
~ Ai Weiwei
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
~ Konrad Lorenz
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
~ Milton Friedman
A foolish friend may cause more woe Than could, indeed, the wisest foe.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
La lectura de las desgracias imaginarias de Cleveland, ardorosamente hecha y frecuentemente interrumpida, creo que me hizo más daño que las propias. Había
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
~ Bertrand Russell
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
~ Robert Benchley
I personally try to buy the best-quality items at the best price that do the least harm and from companies that are striving to do good - many of those companies are run by young entrepreneurs.
~ Neil Blumenthal
I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
~ Forest Whitaker
Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.
~ Matthieu Ricard
To ruin someone it doesn't have to be true, it just has to be said.
~ Unknown
O ódio lesa a pessoa que o sente (...) o seu alvo nunca sente o seu efeito.
~ Unknown