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“Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.”

Source: Silent Spring

“The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact it should be seen at the very center of the ecological crisis, as the cloud-covered Everest of which the more immediate, visible kinds of harm to the environment are the mere foothills.”

Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition

“If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.”

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

People Fall Car Building Harm Drunk Propensity

Author:Emily Yoffe

“I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.”

People Thinking Kind Play Home Law Opportunity Moral Behavior Normal Skins Leaving Harm All Kinds Ethical Restraint Bad Behavior Cathartic

Author:Adam Croasdell

“The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] - it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament," in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the "best armor," since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself.”

“When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.”

“I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on me. What I do find challenging is to forgive people for the harms they inflict on my daughters and family. So, I find it challenging when I see somebody else experience hurt. I also look at my children and family and then I realize, I don't stand inside their skin and that is for me a forgiveness practice I still need to engage in.”

People Needs Looks Children Stills Easy Realizing Challenges Hurt Practice Struggle Daughter Skins Forgiving Harm My Children My Daughter

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.”

Thinking Two Important Choices Social Security Drug Harm Two Things Social Security Urgent Prohibition Elimination Parental Drug Prohibition Vouchers

Author:Milton Friedman

“I know that isn't always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it's hard for people to rise above things.”

People Knows World Self Sometimes Hard Easy Harm Rise Above Self Harm

Author:Andy Biersack

“With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.”

Ifs Soul Pain Choices Causes Consequence Trauma Harm

Author:Gary Zukav

“Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world.”

World Looks Stills Self Spirit Lying Mother Night Stars Peace Voice Sleep Forget Quiet Speech Harm Hiding Nurse Within You Restless Bosoms You Again Noisy Folding

Author:Max Ehrmann

“The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.”

World Years Children Has Beens Done Whole Impossible Disease Killing Population Harm Parasites Malaria

Author:Bill Gates

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

Ifs Men Mankind He Man Rewards Harm Treachery

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.”

Individual Nations Harm Nationalism Fierce Exclusive

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.”

Way Suffering Violence Impossible Harm Snakes

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.”

Done Humor Funny Baseball Balls Harm Genes Swings Foul Bounce

Author:Jerry Coleman

“I got a lot of mail from organizations concerned with bike safety. Then I got a couple from people who wanted my support for mandatory helmet laws. I can't support that. If you pass a law like that you'll do more harm than good, because you'll make people think they've done something about the problem when they haven't.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Done Problem Wanted Law Support Havens Couple Concerned Organization Safety Harm Mail Bike Helmet

Author:Dave Barry

“One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.”

“For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.”

Doe Pain Causes Victim Harm Wounds Going Away Offenders Festering

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm”

“Studies say great harm can be done to a person if the connection between mother and child isn´t there from the start. Love is a basic need/instinct, and people can get quite desperate and become destructive if they don´t have it.”

People Ifs Needs Children Persons Done Mother Love Is Study Connections Instinct Harm Desperate Destructive Basic Needs Mother And Child

Author:Anne Sewitsky

“America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.”

Needs Self America Individual Rights Expression Limits Determination Victim Harm Self Determination Individual Happiness

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Fear is something that really causes the people not to ascend within the spiritual and physical realm. Once you have Jah as a shield and a guide, you got to arm yourself and nothing can you any harm.”

People Spiritual Causes Arms Harm Guides Realms Shields

Author:Sizzla

“When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms about what "deserving citizens" are like, and use those people as spokespeople and as lead plaintiffs in legal cases. This strategy requires that people who are experiencing intersectional harm - who are vulnerable through multiple vectors of demonization and marginalization - be further marginalized and disappeared by the advocacy.”

“Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm.”

Violence Failing Worst Conditions Danger Window Leaving Harm Significant Reform Relief Dressings Expanding Tact Window Dressing

Author:Dean Spade

“We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.”

Should Law White Violence Conditions Movement Capitalism Harm Colonialism White Supremacy Supremacy Legal System Settlers

Author:Dean Spade

“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

“When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm or will it primarily be a symbolic change? Will this divide our constituency by offering relief only to people with certain privileged statuses (such as people with lawful immigration status, people with jobs, married people, etc.)?”

People Jobs Certain Asks Violence Approach Married Harm Immigration Reform Relief Etc Divides Offering Privileged Symbolic

Author:Dean Spade

“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.”

States Belief Particular Protect Racism Democratic Harm

Author:Mario Bunge

“To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect and harm we do as detached, mean, irresponsible adults and communities. The answer is in our hands.”

Mean Done Hands Community Answers Drug Adults Harm Neglect Meaningless Filling Gang Vacuums Irresponsible Detached Filling In

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they've been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.”

Has Beens Problem Used Causes Animal Cases Various Harm Tested Beetles Pesticides Sacramento

Author:George Deukmejian

“The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!”

Doe Christ Rich Safe Advantage Delight Possession Harm Flesh Peaceful Heavenly Joyous Affluence Puritan Peaceful Life

Author:John Calvin

“There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.”

Ifs Men Want Firsts Humans Kind Spiritual Three Christ Natural Pleasure Human Nature Please Normal Thirds Harm Asceticism

Author:Tito Colliander

“In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.”

Men Inspirational Doe Christian Religious Cutting Harm Orthodox

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.”

Inspirational Christian Religious Harm Orthodox

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what we had to do for our commitments with SEATO, for many reasons. And he was carrying forth a policy that he had inherited. And he tried and got us to the peace table in 1968.”

War Reason Policy Commitment Tables Harm Hated Johnson

Author:Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

“On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.”

Ifs Looks Persons Has Beens Hands Attention Cases Issues Our Lives Crazy Crime Serious Like You Tough Victim Harm Honestly

Author:Bill James

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

Trying Done Hurt Honesty Please Harm Being Hurt Falseness

Book:The life I really lived: a novel

Source: The life I really lived: a novel

“Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.”

Writing Kind Doe Earth Science Dies Doubt Environment Products Scientist Environmental Harm Data Articles Casting Credible Weasels

Author:Scott Adams

“For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.”

Years Has Beens Responsibility Higher Mountain Impact Environmental Missions Harm Corporate Zero Climbing Sustainability Social Responsibility Footprint Everest Environmental Impact

Author:Ray Anderson

“The dead do not harm us, only the alive.”

Book:Iris and Ruby: A Novel

Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel

“I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.”

Thinking Children Numbers Moral Protect Our Children Harm Obligation Moral Obligation

Author:Tom Allen

“John Kerry and the other Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of history, as they were during the Reagan presidency. If they had won the day, and Reagan had failed, the Soviet Union would still exist, as would all the harm and suffering it unleashed, and American security would be far weaker as a result. And if they win this election thanks to a promise to undo the Reagan-Bush Doctrine, those cheering loudest will be the most evil-loving among us.”

“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”

Men Love Persons Done Religion Suffering Passion Religious Compassion Despair Encouragement Harm All Time One Time Defiance Religious Person Religious Love

Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

“Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.”

Source: Like a conquered province: the moral ambiguity of America

“I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.”

Firsts Believe Government Hate I Believe Duty Citizens Harm

Author:Gordon Smith

“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

“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.”

Feels May Done Care Literature Power Safe Harm Satisfied Engaged Suspicion Jane Mansfield Park

Book:Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P

Source: Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P

“I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them... Really, in the long run, it's a safe pill and it ain't doing you no harm. I don't see the problem.”

Knows Mean Long Done Problem Running Night Drug Safe Harm Load Long Runs Pills One Night Doing You

Author:Brian Harvey