Harm Quotes - Page 33

• Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Garden, Numbers, Bird

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• A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual “truth.”

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Spiritual, Views, People

  "Wherever You Go, There You Are". Book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994.

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• I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

  Thomas Sowell

  Causes, Problem, Solutions

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.312, Hoover Press

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• We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state - and which remain the real source of our progress as a people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Government, Hands

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• The major basis for my opposition to marijuana prohibition has not been how badly it's worked, the fact that it's produced much more harm than good - it has been primarily a moral reason: I don't think the state has any more right to tell me what to put into my mouth than it has to tell me what can come out of my mouth.

  Milton Friedman

  Marijuana, Thinking, Mouths

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• Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

  James Cook

  Government, Doe, Subsidies

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• There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.

  Will Wilkinson

  Fate, Opportunity, People

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• The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Clever, Men, Law

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

  Vance Havner

  Ignorance, Hot Headed, Cold Hearted

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• Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

  Walter E. Williams

  Littles, Politician, Economy

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• Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.

  Mona Charen

  Children, Adults, Justified

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• The unmistakable lesson is that such is the myopic zealotry of environmentalists like Obama that they would implement policies virtually guaranteed to harm our economy significantly, even when they offer no promise of appreciable environmental benefits.

  David Limbaugh

  Promise, Environmental, Myopic

  "Reckless, Quixotic Fantasies". townhall.com. March 4, 2011.

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• My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Inspiration, Want, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.

  Todd Haynes

  Males, Stories, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  America, Light, People

  Remarks by the President in Golden, CO, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 13, 2012.

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• I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.

  Dermot Bolger

  Thinking, Peculiar, Sometimes

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• The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

  Timothy Keller

  Long, Doe, Definitions

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• The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without harm to anybody. They speak of profit without dealing with loss. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. A profitable enterprise tends to expand; an unprofitable one tends to shrink. The elimination of profit renders production rigid and abolishes the consumer's control.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Eye, Loss

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• For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.

  Bob Tyrrell

  Media, Stories, Reason

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• The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

  Charlie Munger

  Going Away, Doe, Deterioration

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• Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Wicked, Thank God

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.197, Wildside Press LLC

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• When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.

  John Cleese

  School, Vision, Psychological

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• Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stars, Past, Night

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• I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

  Frederick Douglass

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