Harm Quotes

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And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire… — Don Altman
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of… — Khalil Gibran
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying? — Rabindranath Tagore
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can… — Aristotle
The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection… — Samuel Johnson
You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The unspoken word never does harm. — Lajos Kossuth
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny. — Aristotle
There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing… — Allan Bloom
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder. — John Ruskin
People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to… — Michael Newdow
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal… — Aviva Chomsky
The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm… — Charles Caleb Colton
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit… — Frederick William Robertson

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