Harm Quotes
1396 quotes by 1024 authors
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I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get…
— Abraham Lincoln
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No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for…
— Allen Ginsberg
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There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
— Sophocles
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There is a time when even justice brings harm.
— Sophocles
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Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much…
— Harold MacMillan
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The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last…
— David Mamet
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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind…
— James Dickey
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly…
— Nelson Mandela
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I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you,…
— Linus Pauling
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Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure…
— Sarah Vowell
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If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in…
— Milton Friedman
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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
— Marvin Olasky
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Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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Use power to intelligently apprehend people who might harm you. Use that power to not be afraid. Simply step around them.
— Frederick Lenz
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Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.
— Frederick Lenz
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There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the…
— Plato
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Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by…
— Vance Havner
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What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong.
— Robert Ley
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