Top 134 Harming Quotes & Sayings

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent people harming and being harmed.

And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

I didn't know I was harming myself. I don't think my parents should have allowed me to use a sunbed, but they weren't aware of the dangers either.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

The West's sanctions are not aimed at helping Ukraine, but at geo-politically pushing Russia back. They are foolish and are merely harming both sides.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.

I'm not a doctor, but I would assume that anything that you're doing that's harming you, and you can't stop doing it, is a sign of mental illness.

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

having enough for now, while not harming the future.

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity.

By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.

When I buy something from Raven & Lily, I know that it is good, it is not harming anything, and the people making it are being helped.

The children don't choose to be in the business, but the harming and long-term effects through arguments, divorce and conflicts over the financial issues in a business are huge.

Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

When you become completely loving and kind without fear and without thought of harming others, you graudate from the Earth school. That is when reincarnation ends.

By appeasing the anti-racism lobby and affirming its culture of grievance, public institutions and business leaders are not making Britain a fairer place. In fact they are harming the very people they aspire to help.

I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.

You are worth more than harming yourself

Progressive policies are harming the Black community.

One should think twice before harming an animal.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

The FBI relies on FISA every day in national security investigations to prevent terrorists and foreign intelligence services from harming the United States.

FISA is one of the most important investigative tools we've got in preventing our adversaries from harming our country.

I do believe there's a human right to experiment with your consciousness, as long as you're harming no one else.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.

If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat.

Our right to practice our faith freely is respected up to the point where doing so involves harming others.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

People have the right to know the drugs they are taking will make them better instead of harming them.