Causes Quote by Andrew McCarthy

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

— Timothy Keller

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm;…

— T.S. Eliot

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

— Lari White

“Losing what we have can only do us real harm when we feel we can't create it, or something equally valuable or compelling, again,…

— Sean Patrick

“We should aim to make ours a world where people feel free to do things they enjoy, even if others are mildly inconvenienced, but…

— Tim Harford

Everything that we do affects our fate for better or for worse. The circumstances into which we are born also exert a tremendous influence;…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Good work is complicated and may cause damage, but inaction in the face of manifest injustice is simply opting for the harm we know…

— David LaMotte

What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad.…

— Marianne Williamson

“People caused harm to others because they were of malevolent disposition, that was shear human wickedness. something that has always existed and always would.Some…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

— Bertrand Russell

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

— Frank Herbert

Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong

— Henry Louis Mencken