Quotes About Harm

Es gibt allerlei Arten, einen Menschen zu morden oder wenigstens seine Seele, und das merkt keine Polizei der Welt. Dann genügt ein Wort, eine Offenheit im rechten Augenblick. Dann genügt ein Lächeln. Ich möchte den Menschen sehen, der nicht durch Lächeln umzubringen ist oder durch Schweigen.

I know I still cause harm, probably a ton of it no matter what I do. And it kills me, it just kills me, that maybe the best you can ever do is cause less harm. But there you have it.

Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!

Phaedra shook her head. "If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.

We can learn to make better decisions about the downstream effects of technology so that we don't cause unintentional harm inside complex social systems.

George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her father? For she, too, had been harmed by a man who had meant to show his utmost love for her. It made George wonder why love was suppose to be such a wonderful thing. As far as he could tell, love was just another excuse for causing pain.

If I am deluded, I beg you to keep me from harming souls. Please speak to me, my Savior, for I am small and weak and do not know what I am doing.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

The [World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research] scientists cited a natural substance in meat call harm, which they identified as promoting the formation of potentially carcinogenic compounds. They also suggested that cooking meat at high temperatures produced a group of more than one hundred substances--known as heterocyclix amines and polycystic aromatic hydrocarbon--that can cause cancer in people with a genetic predisposition.

What Fitzgerald and Bridger had done was much more than abandonment, much worse. These were not mere passersby on the road to Jericho, looking away and crossing to the other side. Glass felt no entitlement to a Samaritan's care, but he did at least expect that his keepers do no harm.

Here words can kill - literally.

Every time I hear somebody say, 'Well, I just want to help people,' I want to punch them in the face," said Vicki Westbrook. "Those are the people that are usually harming the people the most.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery has been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil. —Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960

Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.

Without defamation, there is no longer slander,

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

The peasants knew that a spoiled son did more harm to a family than a dead one, and they kept themselves from indulging him too much.

Weapons are tools of ill omen Wielded by the ignorant.

Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.

nunca tan pocos tuvieron la posibilidad de hacer tanto daño a tantos a un precio tan bajo. Es

In truth, my purpose on earth is not fully accomplished yet so nothing can harm me. Once my task is completed, then it will be time to go, but until then I'm perfectly safe

People sometimes say that ideas cannot be stamped out by force. The Albigensian Crusade proves them wrong. Ideas can be stamped out by the elimination of everyone who holds the ideas. But this is a very costly process. The Inquisition succeeded in the areas where it operated, but did the church immense harm.

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm