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People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker
Canadian - Scientist
Born: September 18, 1954

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.

Desmond Tutu

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

Carol S. Dweck

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

R. Scott Bakker

We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.

David Benatar

There is an essential difference between someone who harms a child on purpose and someone who harms a child by accident during combat in civilian territory.

Tzipi Livni

Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

Clive Barker

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Lysander Spooner

I think Medicaid harms people.

Ben Sasse

When dealing with data, scientists have often struggled to account for the risks and harms using it might inflict. One primary concern has been privacy - the disclosure of sensitive data about individuals, either directly to the public or indirectly from anonymised data sets through computational processes of re-identification.

Kate Crawford

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

John Walters

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

John Carroll Lynch

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.

Tito Colliander

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

Mark Pellegrino

And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does not harm law [order]; and of these things which are called misfortunes not one harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or citizen.

Marcus Aurelius

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Max Frisch

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