Quotes about Harm
But if you plot revenge against an evildoer, you are harming yourself: Not because the thought may come back to injure you, which is superstition, but because negative thinking reinforces the source of negativity. Darkness adds to darkness.
- Deepak Chopra
to fear is to run away from something due to an unpleasant emotion or feeling that we may suffer or be harmed.
- Joyce Meyer
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
- Dorothy Sayers
Harm seek, harm find.
- Aesop
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
- George Eliot
Darkness does something to a place, doesn't it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.
- David Jeremiah
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
Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.
- Abraham Lincoln
I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.
- John Piper