Do No Harm Quotes

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

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

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

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.

Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!

Shadows cannot harm the almighty!

I have to do this all the time - choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I've earned trust.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Get out of harms way.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

We need to act and act now to get people out of harm's way.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.

A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.

If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If we don't need them, no harm is done.

How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.

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.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.

According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.