Quotes about Harm

Athlete, Economist, Economist

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Government - Harm - Waste

Share as Image

Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

Affliction - Emotions - Happiness - Harm - Mindset - Negative - Patience - Protecting - Quality - Spirits - Threat

Share as Image

Milton Friedman

Athlete, Economist, Economist

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Good - Harm - Power

Share as Image

Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.

Authority - Certainty - Conditioning - Decision - Harm - Human - Individual - Majority - Offence - Parliament - Serious - Sometimes

Share as Image

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

Harm - Moderation - Unwilling

Share as Image

Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Atheism - Belief - Change - Harm - Nonsense - People - Religion - Science

Share as Image

A. A. Milne

Author

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

Anxiety - Book - Brain - Clever - Harm - Mindset - Misery - Plan - Silly - Thinking - Water

Share as Image

H. P. Lovecraft

Writer, Novelist, Author

The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

Burden - Delusion - Envy - Harm - Ignorance - Knowledge - Reality - Thinking - Trouble

Share as Image

Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.

Enemy - Father - Feelings - Harm - Help - Lie - Meditation - Mother - Useless

Share as Image

Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Harm - Help

Share as Image

Laozi

Philosopher

Seeing the small is called Clarity. Keeping flexible is called Strength. Using the shining Radiance, You enter the Light, Where no harm can come to you. This is called Enlightenment.

Enlightenment - Flexibility - Harm - Strength

Share as Image

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

Exercise - Harm - Order

Share as Image

Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual leader

Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot sleep peacefully when there is a theif in the neighborhood. Likewise, when we pray for the well-being of others, it is we who gain peace and quietude. Children, the mantra 'Loka samasta sukhino bhavantu' should be chanted at least once daily.

Children - Gains - Giving - Harm - Meditation - Mindset - Neighborhood - Praying - Sleeping - Wellness

Share as Image

Socrates

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Harm - Ordinary - People - Wishing

Share as Image

E. O. Wilson

Biologist, Naturalist, Author

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Harm - Homosexual

Share as Image

Hippocrates

Writer, Scientist, Greek physician

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Ability - Disease - Harm - Objectification - Physician - Views

Share as Image

Aeschylus

Tragedian

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Harm - Remedy - Silence

Share as Image

Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Compassion - Enlightenment - Harm - Help - Support

Share as Image

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Writer, Poet, Journalist, Aviator

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

Harm - Sometimes

Share as Image

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.

Economy - Facts - Harm - Liberalism - Man - Meaning - Politics - Recognition - Wisdom

Share as Image