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• Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

  George Monbiot

  Opposites, Support, Progress

  "Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2012.

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• We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

  Wendell Berry

  Air, Water, Degrees

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Law, Age

  'Mysticism and Logic' (1919)

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• Fear is energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, HEALS.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Running, Love Is, Energy

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.24, Penguin

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• Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.

  W. Clement Stone

  Believe, Empowering, Challenges

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• To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

  Chief Seattle

  Web Of Life, Earth, Contempt

  Seattle (Chief), Johhny Mohawk (1984*). “Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"”

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• Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.

  Vernon Howard

  Rain, Self, Wind

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• If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Lying, Thinking

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

  Carl Sagan

  Sunset, Romance, Doe

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.154, Ballantine Books

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• Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

  Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

  Learning, Saint, Benefits

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• Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

  Johannes Tauler

  Fall, Grace, Demise

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• Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Strong, Mean

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Nov 26, 2013

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• Do I believe in the concept of Zero Harm? Let's just say I believe that nothing is impossible

  Dave Collins

  Zero, Believe, Safety

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• Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts.
  As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.

  Hippocrates

  Past, Practice, Two

  Epidemics bk. 1, ch. 11

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• If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Ignorance, Self

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• It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

  Bram Stoker

  Roots, Evil, Selfishness

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.125, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

  E. O. Wilson

  Homosexuality

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• In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Trying, Ease

  Jack Kevorkian (1991). “Prescription--medicide: the goodness of planned death”

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• Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion - that is all "our" doing, "our" invention: the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man - often with the best intentions - much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.189, Routledge

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• Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

  Russell Conwell

  Money, Men, Hands

  Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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• To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

  Plutarch

  Failure, Failing

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• 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.

  Walter Bagehot

  Reflection, Doe, Melancholy

  'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'

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• Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping, Avoiding, Deals

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• I know you have the capability to understand right from wrong because you hate people who harm children. Well, why not despise people who harm animals? It's hypocritical! Why protect one and violate the other when neither one wants or deserves the abuse? They just wish it would end. Stop praising the innocence in children then ignoring or making fun of the innocence in animals.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Children, Fun, Hate

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• Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in
  harm's way every day, every week, every year.

  James McGreevey

  Years, Firefighter, Police

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