Quotes about Harm
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.
- Aristotle
Is it clear why I have said that the American white man's malignant superiority complex has done him more harm than an invading army?
- Malcolm X
55. The existence of evil does not harm the world. And an individual act of evil does not harm the victim. Only one person is harmed by it—and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to.
- Marcus Aurelius
The existence of evil does not harm the world. And an individual act of evil does not harm the victim. Only one person is harmed by it—and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to.
- Marcus Aurelius
I have no right to do myself an injury. Have I ever injured anyone else if I could avoid it?
- Marcus Aurelius
Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?
- Marcus Aurelius
What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.
- Margaret Atwood
Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.
- Margaret Atwood
But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched.
- Margaret Atwood
What you don't know won't hurt you.
- Margaret Atwood
Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.
- Deepak Chopra
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
- George Eliot