| "If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them." »The Dalai Lama |
| "Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." »Joseph Wood Krutch |
| "The unspoken word never does harm." »Kossuth |
| "No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong." »Saint John Chrysostom |
| "No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good." »Mandell Creighton |
| "Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it." »Homer |
| "As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm." »Hippocrates |
| "The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner." »Hesiod |
| "Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important." »George Eliot |
| "I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to." »Margaret Cho |
| "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." »Saint Francis de Sales |
| "Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better do no harm." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'" »Danielle Donoho |
| "Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." »Plato |
| "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill |
| "It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals." »Charles Kuralt |
| "A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "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." »William Shakespeare |
| "Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch A jack-o'-lantern with a knife in the side of its head with a note that says 'You.' After that, I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "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." »Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| "Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked." »William Shakespeare |
| "One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov |
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