Harm Quotes - Page 24

• My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

  Gillian Flynn

  Mom, Dad, Kind

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.61, Crown

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• In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

  Thich Thien-An

  Happiness, Buddhism, Evil

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• Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Children, Parent, Damage

  Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Consenting Adult”, p.80, Open Road Media

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• If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Moving

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.53, HarperCollins UK

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• 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.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Reality, Thinking, Ignorant

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• There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the sort of well-intentioned villains who do great harm and don’t understand that they are doing great harm.

  Kyle Minor

  Kind, Being There, Villain

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."

  George H. W. Bush

  Guy, Soldier, Foxholes

  "FOX News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 04, 2007.

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• We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation our minds naturally evolve to what's in it for me? How does this affect me? Can this benefit me? Can this harm me? Then we might move on from that and have a more altruistic point of view about things but that's almost always our initial response.

  Robert Greene

  Selfish, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

  Martha Ostenso

  Mean, Matter, Wells

  Martha Ostenso (1927). “The Mad Carews”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.

  Emily Doskow

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.

  Eula Biss

  Art, Children, Motivation

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• It is natural for the immature to harm others.
  Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning.

  Shantideva

  Fire, Immature, Burning

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• Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

  Horace

  Pain, Doe, Pleasure

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• ... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

  George Eliot

  Care, Precious Things, Increase

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.549

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• Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius

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• Behold the Sea,
  The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
  Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
  Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
  Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
  Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
  Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
  And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
  Giving a hint of that which changes not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Sweet, Strong

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.241, Delphi Classics

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• Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
  Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled;
  Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm
  Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

  John Milton

  Hurt, Trials, Unjust

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.33

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• If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Men, Mind, Doe

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. VIII, 1938.

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• 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.

  Theodoret

  Opposites, Long, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 263), 1895.

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• No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Technology, Opportunity, Choices

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick

  Heart, People, Suffering

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

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• From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

  John Lennon

  Music, Hands, Different

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• Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.

  Chanakya

  Fun, People, Political

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• Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

  Chanakya

  Evil, Political, Causes

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• The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Tree, Political

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