Quotes about Harm
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
- George Eliot
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.
- Arthur C. Clarke
All these years later, I recognize this as the way that winners often speak of those they have harmed beyond repair. Trying to find some way to live with what we have done, we find solace in the idea that their doom was their own doing.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
- Albert Camus
I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.
- Mark Twain
Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.
- John Wesley
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
- Graham Greene
myself. Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Graham Greene
Jealousy and stupidity really do most of the harm that is done in the world.
- LM Montgomery
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.
- Aesop
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
- Aesop