Do No Harm Quotes

The harm done is often difficult to repair.

Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong.

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.

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted.

There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

I knew Elvis Presley very well. He always felt somebody was after him. When you have that kind of a fear, that kind of an attitude, you attract people who want to do you harm.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

The practice of love can be expressed in one sentence: 'Do not harm others.'

The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.

According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence