Harm Quotes · Page 16

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

— Myrtle Reed

After all, harming others means you first harm yourself.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.”

— Anthony Liccione

“I laughed at them. Not because I thought they had no power to harm me, but because they had.”

— Mark Lawrence

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

— Abraham Lincoln

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on,

— Leon Panetta

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom,…

— Edward Said

When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to…

— Patanjali

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

— Walter E. Williams

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a…

— Helen Keller

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves…

— Samuel Johnson

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or…

— James Ellroy

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do.…

— Robert Jordan

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the…

— Winston Churchill

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger…

— Nancy Werlin

The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is…

— Milton Friedman

The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of…

— David Rosen

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect…

— Bram Stoker

I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on…

— Desmond Tutu

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about…

— John Connolly

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of…

— Bob Ney

I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't…

— Michelle Alexander

Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.

— Nancy Werlin

To willfully harm another human being goes against everything I believe in.

— Lari White

“Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring… my desire.”

— Anonymous

What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

— Publilius Syrus

“Guilt is to the soul as pain is to the body, a warning that harm is being done.”

— Fay Weldon

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

— Anonymous

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

— Martha Ostenso

Your enemy is not the one who harms you, but the one who makes you evil.

— Vikrant Parsai

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

— Benjamin Franklin

Science is only a tool. The harm or good depends on how men use it.

— Vikrant Parsai

Talking is always a good idea. There's no harm in keeping lines of communication open.

— Brian Reynolds Myers

If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

— Dalai Lama

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

— Eric Cantona

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

— Ronald Reagan

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

— Stephen King

There's no harm in kissing scenes. I'm open to them as far as the script demands it.

— Pranitha Subhash