Quotes About Harm

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

If your plan will do more harm than good, then God will not permit it

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

We would have never gotten mace had someone not thought, There must be a good way to burn someone's eyes.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

No. He'll get hurt, and he's a good person.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.