Harm Quotes - Page 32

• None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Can Do

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• Be lovely and do no harm.

  Louise Erdrich

  Lovely

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• I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Selfish, Taken, Heart

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client.

  Hyman Rickover

  Men, Engineering, Clients

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all.

  Chase Utley

  Player, Games, Guy

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• What is fear?  Why are you so afraid?  Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why fear?  How can it harm you?  Just false conceptions, just conditionings given by the society - that you have to hide, that you have to protect yourself, that you have to be constantly in a fighting mood, that everybody is and enemy, that everybody is against you.  Nobody is against you!  Even if you feel somebody is against you, he is not against you because everybody is concerned with himself, not with you

  Rajneesh

  Book, Fighting, Enemy

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• A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Responsibility, Leader, Special

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• Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Parent, Mind

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Hurt, Believe, Passion

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• The spirit of Thanksgiving rests in our recognizing the blessings in our lives, and as we all take stock, I hope you will join me in expressing sincerest thanks to our soldiers serving in harm's way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world. May God bless you on this day of thanks, and may God protect our troops.

  Joe Biden

  Blessing, Iraq, Soldier

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• Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring my desire.

  L. J. Smith

  Fire, Sea, Sky

  L. J. Smith (2011). “The Secret Circle: The Initiation and The Captive”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.

  Prince Philip

  Years, Population, Done

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• The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

  Dalai Lama

  Ambition, Weakness, Want

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• In a hospital, there's not anyone who's generally trying to do you harm. You're generally given a backstory about what happened to them, but not about their life, so you get to work on saving their life. But you know whose lives you're saving overseas, in the Army, to a certain degree. You know whether's it your guy or a bad guy, and it's generally not anybody in between.

  Brendan Fehr

  Army, Guy, Trying

  "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

  Mark Pellegrino

  People, Broken, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Giving, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Ideas, People, Firsts

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• I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

  James D. Watson

  Law, Smoking, Brain

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• [...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.

  Thein Sein

  Country, People, Citizens

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• Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

  Bernie Sanders

  Giving Up, Irreparable Harm, Want

  "For a Political Revolution" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2015.

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• People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, People, World

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• The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Judging, Doe

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• Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Drama, Thinking, Views

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2164, Library of Alexandria

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• Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Agreement, Understanding, Needs

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.108, Om Books International

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• If you look back at the 1960's in the United States, and if you think that more good was done than harm, you are probably a Democrat. If you think that more harm was done than good, then you're probably a Republican.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, United States, Looks

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