Harm Quotes - Page 29

• I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Snakes, Suffering, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.39, A&C Black

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• The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

  Rosie Thomas

  Alive

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press

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• I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

  Tom Allen

  Children, Thinking, Numbers

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• John Kerry and the other Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of history, as they were during the Reagan presidency. If they had won the day, and Reagan had failed, the Soviet Union would still exist, as would all the harm and suffering it unleashed, and American security would be far weaker as a result. And if they win this election thanks to a promise to undo the Reagan-Bush Doctrine, those cheering loudest will be the most evil-loving among us.

  Mark Levin

  Cheer, Winning, Evil

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• Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.

  Paul Goodman

  Intelligent, Jail, Top Down

  Paul Goodman (1967). “Like a conquered province: the moral ambiguity of America”

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• I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

  Gordon Smith

  Hate, Believe, Government

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• On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Ideas, Water

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.165, Vintage

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• I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them... Really, in the long run, it's a safe pill and it ain't doing you no harm. I don't see the problem.

  Brian Harvey

  Running, Mean, Night

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• America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

  Christopher Bond

  War, Iraq, America

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• Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.

  John Wesley

  God Love

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• There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Scientist, Made

  "The Politics of Ignorance". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 02, 2005.

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• The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.

  Sam Harris

  Islam, Jainism, Fundamentalist

  "Q&A with Sam Harris". Article on the official site samharris.org, 2005.

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• Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Choices

  William Law (2012). “The Power of the Spirit”, p.21, CLC Publications

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• All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Independent, Equality, Men

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• Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

  Graham Greene

  Fun, Men, Brain

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Brighton rock”

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• Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

  Fred Wilson

  Country, Home, Sacrifice

  "A Veterans Day Story" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

  John Connolly

  Moving, Self Harm, Writing

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• For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Years, Done

  Voltaire, Frederick II (King of Prussia) (1927). “Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great”

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• The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

  John Locke

  Pain, Loss, Shapes

  John Locke (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain­slack brain workers, nor heart­sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'

  William Morris

  Mean, Heart, Men

  "How I Became a Socialist". Justice newspaper, www.marxists.org. June 16, 1894.

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• There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.

  John Bright

  Two, Russia, Europe

  1878 Speech, Birmingham, 13 Jan.

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• If you have superpowers and no one can actually cause you any physical harm, then everything has to be very thought-through. You almost have to fake at being human.

  Henry Cavill

  Fake, Causes, Being Human

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mind, Enemy

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• One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Fake Friends, Smart, Enemy

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• If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Rivers, Perfect

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