Quotes About Harm

Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficient knowledge will always cause harm to himself and others.

On what basis do they say that right and wrong is determined by whether it hurts someone?

it can do no harm if others reflect whether we are in this world to tear down instead of build up. The expression "We don't need that any more" - how readily it is used, and what a stupid and ugly phrase it is.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

If you harm a horse do you make him better or worse? Worse.

You will never come to any harm in the practice of virtue, if you are a really good and true man.

ought the just to injure any one at all?

That in any city, and particularly in the city of Athens, it is easier to do men harm than to do them good;

The same is true of patience or mental quickness. A brain like a sponge and an even temper are all very well in one who minds the proper use of such things; to anyone else, they may bring harm.

Pues a mi, ni Méleto ni Ánito pueden ocasionarme ningún mal, aunque se lo propusieran. ¿Cómo pueden hacerlo, si estoy plenamente convencido de que un hombre malvado jamás puede perjudicar a un hombre justo?

SOCRATES: First, then, let us consider whether the doing of injustice exceeds the suffering in the consequent pain: Do the injurers suffer more than the injured? POLUS: No, Socrates; certainly not.

We had felt no joy in seeing Viena undone and the Germans broken, but rather anguish. Not compassion, but a larger anguish, which was mixed up with our own misery, with the heavy threatening sensation of an irreparable and definitive evil, which was present everywhere. Nestling like gangrene in the guts of Europe and the world. The seed of future harm.

It is not my contention that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm. We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge.

Two walls have dropped from between us: pride and justice. It no longer matters who was right. The Hippocratic oath has no place here - do no harm is the wrong standard for love. Everyone does harm.

Yet what does harm," she said, "is not what truly merits a man's anger, but what he seizes on instead.

God, secrets could simply do you in.

The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.

It was in kindness that the thought came to me now, whether it was truly spoken, or only called forth from my exhausted memory for what comfort the words might hold. Everyone makes choices, and no one knows what may be the end of any of them. If my own was to blame for many things, it was not to blame for everything. Nor was harm all that had come of it.