Harm Quotes · Page 55

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A…

— Tom Robbins

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

— Francois Rabelais

When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you…

— Tammara Webber

Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the…

— Tom Regan

Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

— Charles Caleb Colton

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits…

— Virat Kohli

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you're, like, writing a Python script, it doesn't feel like you're doing something to someone. You just don't think, 'How could…

— Christopher Wylie

[Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's…

— James Toback

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as…

— William Penn

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry…

— Mother Teresa

There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of…

— Thomas Malthus

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

— William Shakespeare

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty…

— Naomi Wolf

Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on…

— Dalai Lama

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury;…

— Arrian

Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting,…

— John Wooden

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their…

— Joe Conason

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Whoever hates, harm.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita