Quotes About Harm

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

Maybe she knows, like I do, how harmful help can be, how sometimes the people who claim to care about you can hurt you the most.

Former president Bill Clinton (born in 1946 and a Yale Law Student of Charles Reich) describes this divide: "If you look back on the sixties and, on balance, you think there was more good than harm, then you're probably a Democrat. If you think there was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican.

Éste es mi último acto de dignidad, reconocer mi error: el daño que se puede hacer al otro cuando no lo dejamos elegir más camino que aquel que nosotros creemos correcto.

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.

involved direct experimentation on children without informed consent being given by their parents or guardians. In the case of the Tuskeegee Study, children were harmed by preventable congenital syphilis. In the radiation experiments they were harmed through direct exposure after birth or in utero exposure during experiments on their mothers.

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

It is hard work to give money away. It requires a great deal of planning and strategizing. If not managed properly, philanthropy can both harm the giver and spoil the receiver. Expand. Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

I do no damage. This is damage, this." He picked up a paper from Camille's desk. "I can't read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

I left, stifling my generous impulse, for I have often observed that while a charitable act may do no harm to the benefactor, it is death to the one who receives it.

indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.

A] person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if: (1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.

There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet - as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.

Like with all other crime, we must, of course, treat the perpetrators of these actions as the criminals they are. But unlike with the vast majority of other crime, justice is not delivered simply by punishing the perpetrator. This is because the harm associated with domestic violence extends far beyond the point of contact.

Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.

Michael respected doctors immensely: that they went to school, that they studied... to do no harm.

Gossip and anger are like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.