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Quotes About Harm

Fraud doesn't benefit anyone except the individual who is involved, but it hurts many innocent souls and leaves them devastated for a lifetime.
~ Unknown
People knew the benefits of meditation even before science was born. Whether science has proven it or not, there is no benefit or harm done.
~ Unknown
Theologians have done more harm than religious beliefs. Just as metaphysicians have confused our minds with abstract concepts.
~ Unknown
Christians have done far more damage to the church of Jesus Christ than any sinners outside the church could inflict.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The events we live through taught me to be sure of nother about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world who mean you harm. And sometimes, they're people you say they love you.
~ Nancy Werlin
The knife closest to you causes more harm than the one far from you.
~ Unknown
Non conta la consapevolezza che non dovrebbe, che non lo farebbe mai. Ciò che importa è che potrebbe farlo, se volesse. Il potere di fare del male è uno stato di benessere. ... Pagina 105
~ Naomi Alderman
The idea that intelligence can be quantitatively measured along a single linear scale has caused untold harm to our society in general, and to education in particular.
~ Neil Postman
It's often the ones we love most who do us harm.
~ Unknown
As for the further risk that the patient could suffer positive harm at the hands of the alternative therapists, chiropractic therapy stands out as one of the few alternative treatments that are dangerous in themselves. In 2001, a systematic review of five studies revealed that roughly half of all chiropractic patients experienced temporary adverse effects, such as pain, numbness, stiffness, dizziness and headaches. Patients
~ Nick Cohen
Central to Mill's approach throughout On Liberty is his 'Harm Principle', the idea that individual adults should be free to do whatever they wish up to the point where they harm another person in the process. Mill's principle is apparently straightforward: the only justification for interference with someone's freedom to live their life as they choose is if they risk harming other people.
~ Nigel Warburton
Mill was very clear on this point: offence should not be confused with harm.
~ Nigel Warburton
Harm could be wrought by inaction as much as action. And
~ Unknown
how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.
~ Octavia E. Butler
how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.
~ Octavia E. Butler
How could sane people like the ones he had left behind in Phoenix do such a thing—or, how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.
~ Octavia E. Butler
To benefit your world, Your people, Your life, Consider consequences, Minimize harm Ask questions, Seek answers, Learn, Teach.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Partnership is giving, taking, learning, teaching, offering the greatest possible benefit while doing the least possible harm. Partnership is mutualistic symbiosis. Partnership is life. Any entity, any process that cannot or should not be resisted or avoided must somehow be partnered. Partner one another. Partner diverse communities. Partner life.
~ Octavia E. Butler
To shape God With wisdom and forethought, To benefit your world, Your people, Your life, Consider consequences, Minimize harm Ask questions, Seek answers, Learn, Teach.
~ Octavia E. Butler
To shape God With wisdom and forethought, To benefit your world, Your people, Your life, Consider consequences, Minimize harm Ask questions, Seek answers, Learn, Teach. FROM Memories of Other Worlds
~ Octavia E. Butler
I cannot love a woman without smothering her with commentary. Proof that if a man is dumb enough, he can do harm without lifting a finger
~ Osamu Dazai
vous savez, un doute fait plus de mal qu'une déception.
~ Unknown
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
~ Oscar Wilde
It was passing strange, I thought, that these two grave strong men should be so gentle over a creature who never cared how she wounded, mocked, flouted, or harmed either of them, to please her sport or charm her vanity
~ Ouida