Harm Quote by Henry George Download Open image “That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.” — Henry George ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Harm Profit Unjust
People should only profit to the extent they make other peoples lives better. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from… — Plautus Copy Share Image
We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are… — Henry George Copy Share Image
As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value… — Henry George Copy Share Image
In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top. — Henry George Copy Share Image
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own… — Henry George Copy Share Image
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops,… — Jimmy Savile Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients’ “ease” but at the same time they do… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image