Harm Quotes - page 2

I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat. (Truman Capote)
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her,” he said, "but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The unspoken word never does harm. View quote
Lajos Kossuth
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible. View quote
Georg Brandes
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. View quote
Henry Adams
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. View quote
John Stuart Mill
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. View quote
Francis of Assisi
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betrays In deepest consequence. View quote
William Shakespeare
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life-becoming a better person. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. (John Maynard Keynes)
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong. View quote
John Chrysostom
Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill. View quote
Celia Rees
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. View quote
Yehuda Berg
Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. View quote
Charles Kuralt
Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites. View quote
Elton Gallegly
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. View quote
Norm Dicks
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. View quote
Richard V. Allen
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun. (John Lennon)
We have never said that the fight against the Iranian aggression and against the expansionist Persian tendencies (which have been demonstrated by various means under successive regimes in Iran) is the decisive battle for the Arabs. What we have said, and still say, is that the fight against Zionism is the main decisive battle for the Arabs. This is a great objective reality, which cannot be denied or underestimated except by someone who would not only harm the Arab nation and its main causes, but would also overlook the main danger. View quote
Saddam Hussein
Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could afford. Thus you have come to merit love and gratitude from all Iraqis and from its plains, mountains, skies and waters. You are good sons of this country. You have offered to the country great men who have averted harm from the country and paved its way to glory and greatness. View quote
Saddam Hussein
During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and the rights of the Arab nation were a constant pattern. Iraq and the Arab nation were regarded as a sphere of influence for the expansionist plans of Iranian interests. That policy has been followed throughout history by the State of Persia against its neighbours to the west, and as we have shown. View quote
Saddam Hussein
Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm! View quote
Tennessee Williams