Best benefits & harm Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me.”

Sin Benefits Harm Be Good Holiness Agreement Willingness Foolishness Consent

Book:Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)

“The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.”

Thinking Men Doe Evil Goodness Benefits Guilt Deeds Harm Wickedness Concealed Refrain Small Man Small Acts Small Deeds

Author:Confucius

“It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.”

Should Mistake Benefits Errors Harm

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.”

Thinking May Littles Book Stories Use Shows Fiction Novel Strange Elements Benefits Science Fiction Harm Tiny Cooks Genre Friendly Puzzles Detectives Isaac Detective Stories

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread widely. There are people that don't have jobs because of tariffs but they don't know it.”

People Knows Doe Jobs Benefits Unions Workers Spread Harm Invisible Visible Protected Tariffs

Author:Milton Friedman

“We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation our minds naturally evolve to what's in it for me? How does this affect me? Can this benefit me? Can this harm me? Then we might move on from that and have a more altruistic point of view about things but that's almost always our initial response.”

Mind Mean Doe Might Moving Views Situation Degrees Benefits Criticism Response Harm Point Of View Selfish Evolve Initials Narcissist

Author:Robert Greene

“The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.”

Long Action Suffering Results Sun Benefits Opposites Harm Operations Heat Dry Mud Hardened Long Suffering

Author:Theodoret

“Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.”

Wells Hands Interest Wealth Virtue Conditions Talent Danger Equal Essentials Benefits Harm Opening Republic Aristocracy

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“We should interact with legal reform tactically, knowing that it will not meet our ultimate goals but asking whether there are ways that engaging with particular reforms might benefit our work and help reduce certain harms or dangers.”

Way Should Helping Might Certain Goal Knowing Danger Particular Benefits Ultimate Asking Harm Reform Engaging Ultimate Goal

Author:Dean Spade

“On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.”

Doe Ideas Whole Artist Belief Water Cold Benefits Debt Harm Collectors Cold Water Flogging

Book:The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.”

“The unmistakable lesson is that such is the myopic zealotry of environmentalists like Obama that they would implement policies virtually guaranteed to harm our economy significantly, even when they offer no promise of appreciable environmental benefits.”

Economy Policy Promise Lessons Offers Benefits Environmental Harm Environmentalist Myopic Zealotry

Author:David Limbaugh

“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.”

Ifs Inspirational Light Government Causes Liberty Benefits Harm Libertarian Legislation Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Limited Government Limiting Government Rights And Freedoms Limited Freedom

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“There is so much more knowledge than most people realize about how to maximize the benefits of play and minimize the potential harms.”

People Play Realizing Benefits Harm More Knowledge

Author:Jane McGonigal

“There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.”

People Helping Use Light Natural Learning Fit Benefits Harm Light And Knowledge

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.”

Way Firsts Persons Facts Causes Process Moral Progress Benefits Tests Harm Narrative Formulas Distribution Martyr Evaluate Involving First Person Scientific Truth

Author:Catherine Wilson

“Anything that comes from the cow, a little milk, butter, cheese, is alright for the spiritual aspirant. There is no harm to the cow, and it is of benefit to take it.”

Littles Spiritual Benefits Harm Milk Cows Cheese Alright

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.”

Firsts Running Wanted Romance Courses Technology Economy Revolution Benefits Harm Online

Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.”

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“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.”

May Motivation Causes Compassion Failing Effects Benefits Harm Ethical

Author:Dalai Lama

“The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.”

Believe Hands Past History Alive Benefits Harm

Book:The Shape of Irish History

Source: The Shape of Irish History

“Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.”

Source: Path To Tranquility

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