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• 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.

  Arrian

  Leader, Greek, Done

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• An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Expectations, Doe, Ethics

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• If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

  Dalai Lama

  Knowledge, Ifs

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• There can be no justification to admit, in any way, the use of armed forced to intervene in the internal affairs of a WTO [Warsaw Treaty Organization] member country. The solving of domestic problems belongs exclusively to the Party and people of each country and any kind of interference can only do harm to the cause of socialism, friendship and collaboration among the socialist countries.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Country, Party, Socialist Countries

  Commencement address at the Romanian Military Academy August 14, 1968. "The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Forty Years Later". Book by M. Mark Stolarik, 2010.

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• I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 216), March 24, 1966.

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• Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.

  Melissa Farley

  Climate, Social, Prostitution

  "Attitudes Toward Prostitution and Acceptance of Rape Myths". Journal of Applied Social Psychology Vol. 32, issue 9, Abstract, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. September 2002.

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• Most harm is done by people who are awake.

  Jeremy Hardy

  People, Done, Awake

  "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, May 16, 2008.

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• The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.

  Randal Marlin

  Government, People, Accountability

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.219, Broadview Press

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• The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

  Brother Ali

  Bombs, Threat

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• Anyone who loves the concept of Zero Harm obviously has nothing to love

  Dave Collins

  Zero, Safety, Concepts

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• Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

  Homer

  Done, Fool, Iliad

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• The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Doe, Credit, Rivals

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.101, TAN Books

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• Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

  Epicurus

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Brother, Mean

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God forces. We must have the courage to detach our support from men who are doing evil. We must bear them no hatred, but we must break with them.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Party, Men

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• There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Hands, Atheism, Together

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• There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated with Jesus. What were specifically Christian were some of the less enlightened teachings, which have done untold harm. Christians claim that organised Christianity has been a great force for good, but this view can be maintained on one assumption only: that everything good in the Christian era is a result of Christianity and everything bad happened in spite of it.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

  David Hoffman

  Talking, Long, Engagement

  "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.

  Jan Hunt

  Meaningful, Hurt, Children

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.4, New Society Publishers

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• The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline

  Shantideva

  Discipline, Perfection, Renunciation

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• One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

  Gautama Buddha

  Noble, Inspirational Buddhist

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• That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, He Man

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (8), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as
  obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Men, Emotional, Long

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.32, Penguin

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• Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Slave Owners, People, Being Real

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.256, University of Chicago Press

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• Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.54, Penguin

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