Harm Quotes
1396 quotes by 984 authors
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then…
— Alan Paton
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Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of…
— Sarah Vowell
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I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.
— Robert Baer
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Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst…
— William P. Young
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You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the…
— Daniel Dennett
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Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed…
— Gregory Maguire
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Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that…
— Jim Harrison
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Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others;…
— Dean Koontz
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I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me…
— Paulo Coelho
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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and…
— Mark Twain
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Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it…
— Charles de Lint
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It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in…
— Betty Smith
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It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.
— Julian Barnes
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That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone…
— Anne Bishop
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Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be…
— Augusten Burroughs
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there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
— Stephen King
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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for…
— Franz Kafka
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
— Pema Chodron
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Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my…
— Alexandre Dumas
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