Harm Quotes

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

I just try to do me and stay out of harms way.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

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.

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.

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.

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

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

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

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

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

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.

If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.