It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Science is only a tool. The harm or good depends on how men use it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Our quest for a successful outcome may end up doing more harm than good to our organizations, our families, and ourselves.” — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“A quick enlightenment tends to do more harm than good. Wise may easily become unwise.” — Iva Kenaz Copy Share Image
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to… — Coco Martin Copy Share Image
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally… — Steve Corbett Copy Share Image
“If man is not to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the social order, he will have to… — Friedrich A. von Hayek Copy Share Image
On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Like almost every major infrastructure, the Internet can be abused and its users harmed. We must, however, take great care that the… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“An important reason may be that government at the present time is so large that it has reached the stage of negative… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good. — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, we get advice from people who are not equipped to give it, and it does more harm than good. — Amy Chan Copy Share Image
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Unless we as social change agents come from a certain kind of spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good intentions don't really matter if they don't lead to good actions. Sometimes those with good intentions do us more harm than… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a child, of being wholly subservient and dependent, of being… — John Holt Copy Share Image
The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Everybody wants the world to be a better place, and some think that government actions can bring that about. But they don't… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Copy Share Image
