Harm Quotes - page 4

We confess our faults, to make amends by our sincerity for the harm they have done us in the opinion of others. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?” Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm. View quote
Iain Banks
Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day...Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody. View quote
Mike Patton
The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened. View quote
Theodoret
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ... View quote
Arrian
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings. View quote
Richard Cobden
Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess. (George Orwell)
It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise! View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss. View quote
Tony Abbott
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. (Isaac Asimov)
There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society. View quote
Natan Sharansky
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm. View quote
Walter Bagehot