#Harm Quotes

“He does me double wrongThat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”

“The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.”

“Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.”

“She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.”

“Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.”

“... all comparisons injure.”

“Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.”

“When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.”

“Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.”

“If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!”

“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.”

“Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.”

“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”

“Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.”

“And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does not harm law [order]; and of these things which are called misfortunes not one harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or citizen.”

“No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.”

“If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.”

“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”

“Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.”

“The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.”

“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”

“Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.”

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

“It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.”

“An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.”

“unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.”

“An angry man is full of poison.”

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

“An angry person is always full of poison.”

“Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.”

“Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.”