Harm Quotes - Page 36

• The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.

  Norm Phelps

  Buddhist, Selfish, Teaching

  Norm Phelps (2004). “The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights”, p.15, Lantern Books

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• When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First Precept. It is absolutely forbidden to Buddhists. As to eating meat, we know that the only way we can obtain it is for an animal to be killed. Therefore, when we eat meat, it is our intent that an innocent animal should die to satisfy our addiction to flesh. And that underlying intention, no matter how well hidden behind a smokescreen of rationalizations will block the growth of compassion and create negative karma.

  Norm Phelps

  Karma, Buddhist, Block

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• Blessed are the powers that grant me magic.
  I promise to use their gift well.
  To help mend my world.
  To help mend all worlds.
  And should I forget to mend,
  Should I refuse to mend,
  Still I will remember
  To do no harm.

  Janni Lee Simner

  Blessed, Magic, Promise

  Janni Lee Simner (2013). “Faerie After: Book 3 of the Bones of Faerie Trilogy”, p.258, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Learning, Light, People

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• When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

  Patanjali

  Steadfast, Feels, Creatures

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• Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books can, for example, give you ideas. I don't know if you've ever had an idea before, but, if you have, you know how much trouble an idea can get you into.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Book, Ideas, Giving

  "The Name of this Book is Secret". Book by Pseudonymous Bosch, 2007.

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• In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on fulfillment in your work and perfection in achievement, you will become either inwardly deranged or outwardly unsettled.

  Zicheng Hong

  Resent You, Perfection, Achievement

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• Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.

  Zicheng Hong

  Regret, Drug, Taoism

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• We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

  Claire Wolfe

  Nice, Government, Political

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• The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Doe, Civil Rights, Threatening

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• I was never presented with the details as far as the collective bargaining system is Greece. I am in favor of a normal system without giving the labour minister the right to extend the results to extend the result of the collective bargaining to the whole of the real economy. The government has to make sure that the results will not harm the situation of small and medium enterprises.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Real, Government, Giving

  Source: marketnews.com

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• Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.

  Andrew Solomon

  Ideas, People, Joy

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. "Betray" is a sort of shorthand for what happens.

  Andrew Solomon

  Doe, Would Be, Betrayed

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.

  Andrew Solomon

  Hurt, Husband, Wife

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• There may be some who wish that he would have taken the occasion to first comment on the Brexit vote, but they're not going to abandon him. They're not gonna let the media do it. Romney people? The media could separate his supporters from him, but they can't from Trump. They don't understand this yet. They think one of these times when they do a trick like this it's gonna work and they're gonna be able to really harm [Donald] Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

  Ralph Stanley

  Church, Instruments

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ultimate innocence and purity. That's why it's hard to see a dog in its dogness. That's why, when some harm comes to a dog, it's much harder for an audience to deal with that, more so than dealing with harm that comes to a child or anything human.

  Todd Solondz

  Dream, Dog, Children

  "'Wiener-Dog': Director Todd Solondz Explains Why It Took a Few Years to Make This Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2016.

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• If it were possible to live without causing harm to any living being at all, then indeed we might well choose not to eat carrots or other vegetables. But that is not possible - merely by being alive, we necessarily cause harm to many, many beings: we step on them inadvertently, we breathe them in without noticing, we kill them when we brush our teeth or wash our bodies, etc.

  Sharon Gannon

  Vegetables, Teeth, Alive

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.

  Sharon Gannon

  Order, Needs, Purpose

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Pesticides, Environment

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes less harm, to ourselves, to the other animals, to the planet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Choices, Want

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.

  Damian Kulash

  Artist, Thinking, Names

  "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Suffering

  "Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall: Empathizing with Animals and Touching People’s Hearts". Interview with Lauren Kearney, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

  Rod Stryker

  Yoga, Decay, Disease

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• The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Judging, Trying, Republican

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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