Harm Quotes · Page 19

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

— James Madison

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

— Wallace Stegner

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

— Frank Moore Colby

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

— Oscar Wilde

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

— Zoroaster

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

— Epicurus

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

— Bertrand Russell

It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

— Mark Twain

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to…

— Diane Frolov

Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not…

— Laozi

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence…

— Marvin Olasky

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did…

— Janet Morris

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

— Steven Pinker

It's really, really hard to do good in one realm, if you're seen as doing a lot of harm in another realm.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

— Dick Morris

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

— Jose Marti

“There's nothing wrong with nearly getting killed. Actually getting killed: now that would be annoying. But nearly getting killed is fine. I…

— Dave Shelton

We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We…

— Ronald Reagan

The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,'…

— Jack Kornfield

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in…

— Stella Reid

I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now,…

— Foster Friess

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just…

— Osamu Dazai

This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.

— Marie Antoinette

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

— Jose Maria Aznar

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Barbara Brown Taylor

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they…

— Bokar Rinpoche

If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Evil imaginations causes harm to others. Such things do not dwell in the mind of a righteous person.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!

— William Wordsworth

As I get bigger and more viral, there's going to be more and more people who want to harm me, 100 percent.

— Sexyy Red

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our…

— Joseph Butler

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no…

— Benjamin Whichcote

Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm…

— Laozi

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

— Tacitus

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

— Barack Obama