Accidents Quote by Isabel Paterson Download Open image “Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.” — Isabel Paterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accidents Done Goals Good people Harm Lapses Omission People World
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid. — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another, which is… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“If Charles F. Kettering or Thomas Alva Edison or Henry Ford had been put to work digging ditches under duress, one could calculate approximately… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted,… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic nature of the power authorized was so little realized that this was called "free education," the most absolute contradiction of facts by… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Why did the humanitarian philosophy of eighteenth century Europe usher in the Reign of Terror? It did not happen by chance; it followed from… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image