Harm Quotes - Page 37

• I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me".

  Oprah Winfrey

  Pregnancy, Trying, Want

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• It was Hillary Clinton who left Americans in harm's way in Benghazi and after four Americans fell, said: ''What difference, at this point, does it make?''

  Mike Pence

  Differences, Way, Doe

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• There are many times when I have to remind myself that people who harm others are coming from a place of profound disconnection. It is not easy to recognize the pain such a person is in, especially because they may not be conscious of it themselves. They may present themselves to the world as just fine. If you believe human beings have a potential for deep connection, wisdom and love; the limitation in those peoples' lives becomes clearer.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Believe, People

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change.

  Mary Robinson

  People, Suffering, Fossils

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

  Pope Francis

  Catholic, Avoided

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm.

  Katie Cleary

  Heart, Animal, Compassion

  "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.

  George Saunders

  Running, Nice, Long

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• Concerning our possibilities on the international financial markets, the sanctions are severely harming Russia. But the biggest harm is currently caused by the decline of the prices for energy. We suffer dangerous revenue losses in our export of oil and gas, which we can partly compensate for elsewhere. But the whole thing also has a positive side: if you earn so many petrodollars - as we once did - that you can buy anything abroad, this slows down developments in your own country.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Loss, Russia

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to him (as he would to a hardened sinner) that he go and commit fornication or go and steal. He knows we do not want that and he does not set out to tell us something we do not want to hear; but he finds out that little bit of self-will or self-righteousness and through that, with the appearance of well doing, he will do us harm.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Self

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• If one of you sees, sometime, something unedifying and so much as goes on to pass it on and put it into the heart of another brother, in doing so you not only harm yourself but you harm your brother by putting one more little bit of knavery into his heart. Even if that brother has his mind set on prayer or some other noble activity, and the first arrives and furnishes him with something to prate about, he not only impedes what he ought to be doing, but brings a temptation on him. There is nothing graver or more deadly than this doing harm, not only to himself but also to his neighbor.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.

  Arlen Specter

  Way, Favors, Chance

  "Reaction to President Bush's speech". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2007.

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• It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.

  Kellyanne Conway

  People, Want, Shame

  "Donald Trump’s campaign manager has no clue what a press conference is". www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2016.

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• Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

  Allen W. Wood

  People, Giving, Leader

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).

  Catherine Wilson

  Children, Sacrifice, Animal

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.

  Catherine Wilson

  Progress, Benefits, Narrative

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Decision, President

  Source: time.com

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• Right now - and this is something Donald [Trump] has supported, along with the gun lobby - right now, we've got too many military- style weapons on the streets. In a lot of places, our police are outgunned. We need comprehensive background checks, and we need to keep guns out of the hands of those who will do harm.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Gun, Hands

  Source: time.com

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• I know our congressmen hasn't done it, has anybody put a server in their basement? Oh boy, Hillary Clinton's only - Hillary Clinton's only experience in cyber security involves her criminal scheme to violate federal law, engineering a massive cover up and putting the entire nation in harm's way.

  Donald Trump

  Boys, Engineering, Law

  Source: time.com

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• We need to act and act now to get people out of harm's way.

  Mike Pence

  People, Needs, Way

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, Criminals

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Evidence of harm is hard to come by.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Evidence, Hard

  Source: www.salon.com

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• For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves.

  Mother Teresa

  Sorry, People, Forgiving

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• These folks are telling Donald Trump that if he tries to move out on his plan to have a deportation squad, to harm Americans, and if he does - and if he has - he tries to do that, we're going to be there to stand and say no. We don't - we oppose his misogyny. We oppose his picking on people of different ethnic and religious groups.

  Keith Ellison

  Religious, Moving, Squad

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

  James L. Barksdale

  Ocean, Reality, Tourism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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