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“There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.”

People Whole Opportunity Justice Fate Harm

Author:Will Wilkinson

“The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws.”

Men May States Law Individual Tasks Institutions Harm Clever Application Abandoned Entitled Compulsion Coercion Competent Discretion

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.”

Ignorance Cold Hot Harm Hearted Intellectualism Cold Hearted Hot Headed

Author:Vance Havner

“Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.”

Littles Economy Politician Harm Immense

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.”

Children Results Clear Policy Adults Harm Welfare Initiative Justified

Book:Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“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

“My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.”

Want Inspiration Action Harm Terrorist

Author:Jeremy Scahill

“In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.”

Ifs Knows Way Persons Stories Happens Film Subjects Figures Males Obstacles Harm Driven Love Story Foe Persevere Protagonists

Author:Todd Haynes

“I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.”

People World Want States Light America Values United United States Violence Terror Harm Around The World Shakes Resolve United States Of America Acts Of Violence Acts Of Terror

Author:Barack Obama

“I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Sometimes Universe Standing Bigger Edges Harm Peculiar Angle Margins Bigger Picture

Author:Dermot Bolger

“The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?”

Long Doe Problem Common Moral Definitions Harm Framework

Author:Timothy Keller

“The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without harm to anybody. They speak of profit without dealing with loss. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. A profitable enterprise tends to expand; an unprofitable one tends to shrink. The elimination of profit renders production rigid and abolishes the consumer's control.”

Mean Eye Speak Loss Existence Activity Instruments Raised Rate Profit Productions Harm Proof Consumers Enterprise Shrinks Profitable Abolish Elimination Reins Profit And Loss

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.”

Reason Stories Interest Media Harm Fascinated National Interests

Author:Bob Tyrrell

“The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.”

Ifs Way Doe Lasts Sin Huge Harm Fixed Going Away Accounting Deterioration

Author:Charlie Munger

“Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.”

People Ifs Should Littles I Can Can Do Prove Constitution Harm Foolish Administration Wicked Thank God

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.”

School Vision Minutes Harm Psychological Beaten Adjustment

Author:John Cleese

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.”

Knows Feels Littles Doe Past Artist Night Stars Mystery Poet Mere Patterns Harm Desert Gas Atoms Marvelous

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.”

Author:Frederick Douglass

“There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death”

Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited

“Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.”

Knows Men Children Doe Earth Mother Teach One Thing Blood Taught Son All Things Our Children Creator Connected Harm Your Children Contempt Strands Web Of Life

Author:Chief Seattle

“The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.”

Used Technology Harm Empowering

Author:Barack Obama

“When we aren't alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.”

Should Helping Opportunity Situation Watches Missing Circumstances Harm Encounters Missing Opportunity

Author:John Wooden

“[Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years there've been hundreds of people who've been getting high constantly and behaved very destructively and have not been arrested. Robert's real problem is he gets caught.”

People Years Real Problem Guy Sweet Drug Caught Harm Arrested Being Single Real Problems Selective Getting High Prosecution Robert Downey Sweet Guy

Author:James Toback

“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.”

Littles Soul Safety Harm Renewal

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war interferes with saving overdose victims in two ways: first, because witnesses to overdose fear prosecution, they often don't call for help until it's too late. Second, because the drug war supports the belief that making naloxone available over-the-counter or with opioid prescriptions would encourage drug use, the antidote is available only through harm reduction programs like needle exchanges or in some state programs aimed at drug users.”

“I will cross that bridge when it comes. I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm. I am into it in a big way, and I am good at it, and I am going to get very, very rich and then I will get out and we will see what comes after that.”

People Knows Way Long Bigs Guy Fighting Games Term Brain Rich Stupid Crosses Harm Bridges Long Term Damage Not Stupid

Author:Conor McGregor

“What encryption lets us do is say, "Yes, the Internet is insecure." Bad guys are able to compromise computers everywhere, but we're able to tolerate that because if they do intercept our messages, they can't do any harm with it.”

Ifs Able Guy Internet Computer Messages Harm Compromise Tolerate Insecure Bad Guys Encryption

Author:Matt Blaze

“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.”

Men Suffering Journey Disease Medicine Painful Harm Graves Conquer Disease And Death

Author:Petr Skrabanek

“Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.”

Letting Go Horse Harm

Author:John Hagee

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

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.”

Doe Facts Helping Action Crime Victim Extremes Harm Rage Reactions Territory Elsewhere Palestinian Shocking Lebanon

Author:Noam Chomsky

“People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.”

People Ifs Thinking World Trying School Together Reading Attention Gone Trouble Paid Harm Sunday Good Work Bothered Doing Good Sleeves Annoyed Sunday School Reading The Bible

Author:Jack McDevitt

“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.”

Should Children Doe Book Novel Violence Adults Harm Analysis

Author:Martin Gardner

“If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!”

Ifs Liberty Essentials Harm Injury Confronting

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Nineteen people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make the world safe enough that nineteen people wouldn't want to do harm to us. So it seems like we have to rethink a strategy that is less military-based.”

People World Want War Hard Enough Seems Imagine Military Safe Strategy Harm Imagine That Towers Flew Nineteen

Author:Jon Stewart

“Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.”

Knows Firsts Children Harm My Children Know Me

Author:Michael Jackson

“I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.”

People Children Written Harm Untrue Unfaithful

Author:Michael Jackson

“The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.”

“What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true; yet it hardly harms Rossetti or touches his standing. On the contrary, it defines both very brilliantly. The small word 'failed' is a small word and little more to artists who are forever going on until they give up over a game that must be lost. Every artist, when confronted by the immensities of art, which is life, must confess to failure. A failure is a thing very relative.”

Giving Littles Art Two Artist Games Lost Forever Influence Fame Giving Up Standing Harm Contrary Relative Immensity Small Words

Author:Ford Madox Ford

“If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.”

Ifs Knows Children Harm My Children

Author:Toni Braxton

“So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays. What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

Men Important Reason Use Today Language Can Do Boys Sacrifice Tired Harm Lazy Endeavor Laziness Exhausted Essays Vessel Acid Very Sad Morose

Author:Mark Twain

“If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.”

Ifs Want Persons Long Form Courses Individual Bits Common Compassion Rights Expression Ideals Property Harm Tolerance Common Sense Cornerstones Individual Expression

Author:Peter McWilliams

“As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.”

World Doe Moving Wise Color Flower Harm Bees Gathering Fragrance Nectar

Author:Gautama Buddha

“All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?”

World Should Self Suffering Harm Demon Attachment Should I

Author:Shantideva

“It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.”

Criticism Medicine Harm Thrive Stifling

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.”

Heart Done Wonder Comfort Harm Pity Tempest Amazement

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.”

“A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do net good [...] rainfall will increase slightly, growing seasons will lengthen, Greenland's ice cap will melt only very slowly, and so on.”

Ends Growing Century Seasons Increase Harm Ice Caps Cumulative Rainfall Greenland

Author:Matt Ridley

“I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and the responses it elicited. Catholics and Lutherans can ask forgiveness for the harm they have caused one another and for their offenses committed in the sight of God. Together we can rejoice in the longing for unity which the Lord has awakened in our hearts, and which makes us look with hope to the future.”

“Those ministers of God who go about condemning me rather than preaching the Gospel they are sent to preach, are doing themselves a great harm. The more they condemn me, the lesser their anointing become. Go round the country today and see what is happening. Those men of God who used to perform great signs and wonder have lost their anointing because of their blasphemies.”

Men Country Today Used Lost Wonder Happenings Rounds Harm Ministers Preaching Blasphemy Condemning Anointing Man Of God Preaching The Gospel Signs And Wonders

Author:T. B. Joshua