Quotes About Harm

A wise man once said there are three ways to find a fool. He is a fool that seeks that which he cannot find; he is a fool that seeks that which being found will do him more harm than good; he is a fool that, having a variety of ways to bring him to his journey's end, takes that which is worst.

Unrecht leiden schadet keinem Christen. Aber Unrecht tun schadet.

Deadly force is authorized when there is an immediate and otherwise unavoidable danger of death or grave bodily harm to the innocent.

the harm that Albertine had done me was a last bond between her and myself which outlived memory even, for with the conservation of energy which belongs to everything that is physical, suffering has no need of the lessons of memory.

I know Mrs. Bowden's politics aren't the same as yours, but I'm really desperate to find these people who might be trying to harm her. The people who probably killed Joe Likely and his girlfriend . . ." He took a sip and the Kool-Aid was improbably good on his tongue.

They didn't mean any harm in it. But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

What we don't know can't hurt us.

We must find him...Some harm will fall upon our friend in his craziness. We must search through the whole world until we find him.

I didn't mean any harm.' For who truly means harm in all this world.

If you can't entirely trust what you think, what about trusting awareness? What about trusting your heart? What about trusting your motivation to at least do no harm? What about trusting your experience until it's proven to be inaccurate — and then trusting that discovery?

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.

Good intentions don't really matter if they don't lead to good actions. Sometimes those with good intentions do us more harm than good.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil

Sometimes, you regret letting certain people into your life. The harm has already been done. All you can do is learn a lesson from it and move on. Life is to short to spend it on regrets. Life goes on.

Invalids, weary of having to make the infrequency of their attacks depend on their own prudence, like to persuade themselves that they can do everything that they enjoy, and that does them harm, with impunity, provided that they place themselves in the hands of a higher authority who, without putting them to the least inconvenience, can and will, by uttering a word or by administering a pill, set them once again on their feet.

That feeling of veneration which we always have for those who hold, and exercise without restraint, the power to do us harm.

that feeling of veneration which we always have for those who wield unrestrained power to do us harm.

Religious conduct occupies no "forbidden field," but rather stands shoulder-to-shoulder with all other conduct that engenders the same harm. The question was whether the behavior was so reprehensible as to deserve punitive damages. Obviously, a jury thought so.

I will endorse the Supreme Court's unfairly maligned opinion in Employment Div. v. Smith, and I will argue that there is no constitutional right to harm others simply because the conduct is religiously motivated. The Court's First Amendment doctrine is wise. Legislatures can exempt the religious from some laws, but only where legislators and prosecutors ask the hard questions and where the religious entities have borne the burden of proving that exempting them renders significant harm.

The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine clearly stated that it understood the "enormity" of the harm done to children where sexual abuse is "inflicted in the context of religious activities," and then provided a rote recitation of the principle that judicial examination of a religious organization's conduct is "wholly forbidden by the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

the rules of engagement are a clear and present danger, frightening young soldiers, who have been placed in harm's way by their government, into believing they may be charged with murder if they defend themselves too vigorously.