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• Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric diagnosis.

  Harriet Lerner

  Sex, Judging People, Diagnosis

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Oct 18, 2015

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• In the Small group the individual can know the effects of his actions on his several fellows, and the rules may effectively forbid him to harm them in any manner and even require him to assist them in specific ways. In the Great Society many of the effects of a person's actions on various fellows must be unknown to him. It can, therefore, not be the specific effects in the particular case, but only rules which define kinds of actions prohibited or required, which must serve as guides to the individual.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Groups, May, Way

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Volume 2: "The Mirage of Social Justice". Chapter 9: "'Social' or Distributive Justice", 1973.

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• There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once and for all. ... Probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez faire.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Principles, Done, Thumbs

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 1 : The Abandoned Road, 1940 - 1943.

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• It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair.

  Cat Stevens

  Artist, Impact, Relief

  "Singer Islam Gets Libel Damages". news.bbc.co.uk. February 15, 2005.

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• 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.

  Richard Cobden

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "Richard Cobden". Book by Richard Gowing, 1890.

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• 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.

  Tony Abbott

  Husband, Father, Boss

  "Tony Abbott under fire". AM with Linda Mottram, www.abc.net.au. July 2 , 2002.

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• "You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."

  Iain Banks

  Men, Doe, Littles

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 277), 1988.

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• All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Issues, Freedom Of Speech, Serious

  Alan Dershowitz (2008). “Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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, thousands on Radio One.

  Jimmy Savile

  Girl, Needs, Done

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• 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!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Fighting, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

  Alice Walker

  War, Thinking, Impact

  "Poet, Author Alice Walker Meets the Inner Journey with Global Activism in 'The Cushion in the Road'". Interview with Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, www.democracynow.org. May 28, 2013.

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• We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Motherhood, Knowing

  "Hypatia". Book by Dora Russell, ch. 4, 1925.

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• I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.

  Tim Buckley

  Thinking, Hands, Games

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• For our country to be safe from terrorists we must stabilize Iraq and show that it can be done and take out these terrorist organizations who would harm Americans. Our freedom is at stake here.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Country, Organization, Iraq

  "CNN Breaking News". Interview with Leon Harris, edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2003.

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• Sex has to do with imagination, so the sky is the limit. If you're not doing bodily harm, why shouldn't you do what turns you on?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sex, Sky Is The Limit, Imagination

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• The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

  Thomas Malthus

  Views, Political, Branches

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.246, Penguin UK

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• We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Trying, Citizens

  Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the Knesset, October 31, 2010.

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• What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.

  Keith Olbermann

  Health, Self, Availability

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• It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

  Byron White

  Sight, Police, Doubt

  Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 1985.

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• Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  May, Causes, Belief

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.203, Random House

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• 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.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mistake, Errors, Benefits

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.72, Random House

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• Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Effort, Doe, Information

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.49, Random House

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• Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right; rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Men, Differences

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.

  Jean Marzollo

  Baby, Couple, Challenges

  Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press

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• I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Thinking, Friendly

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