Do No Harm Quotes

Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.

Evidence of harm is hard to come by.

Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all.

I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.

There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

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.

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

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.

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.

I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all right; it didn't harm me too much.

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people.

These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important.

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

Use power to intelligently apprehend people who might harm you. Use that power to not be afraid. Simply step around them.

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm.

My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.

We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best, as far as I'm concerned.