Harm Quotes

“How peculiar it feels
to speak about
health care in America
taking care of people’s
health
while our government
bombs
the limbs
off children
in faraway lands.
And starves and imprisons
not a few of them
at home.
How odd
that it seems
not obviously known
that true health care
must mean, at minimum,
deliberate non-harming
of anyone?”
― Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Ain't no harm in doing no harm to your neighbours.”
― DON SANTO

“Fools refuse to truly believe that a thing can be both delicious or pleasurable … and harmful.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“And everything is vulnerable to harm, one way or another. Everybody is vulnerable. It’s kind of horrible when you think about it. All that breakage, without so much as an intention behind it half the time. All that tantalizing fragility.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Jack

“The only genuinely effective way to change the collective consciousness of humans, is to work on ourselves as individuals, to separate ourselves from everything we recognise to be inherently harmful, and to inspire the same in others.”
― Mango Wodzak, Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy

“Do not harm the helpless.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“…any voter denied a say in democracy has been harmed, and a remedy is in order regardless of the effect on an electoral outcome.”
― Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

“دفع الأذى بالأذى إنتحار”
― Mikhail Naimy, كرم على درب

“Don't do anything to anyone,
that you can't see being done to yourself”
― Vineet Goel

“Allyship born of heroism- not altruism- will ultimately be performative and harmful.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“[Let the bears devour our enemies]. We have no obligation
To open // ourselves // for those who do us harm.”
― Christopher Soto

“The moral is: stay alone. Any idea of any close relationship should be imaginary, like any story I am writing. This way no harm is done to me or to any other person.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“The risks we fear the most are now often—thanks to our successful international collaboration—the risks that actually cause us the least harm.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Without hate there is no harm.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To see if an act is immoral or not, ask yourself firstly "is it necessary".. if it is not, ask yourself "does it cause "harm", or does it bring more "harmony" ? Non vegan practises are built on violence and oppression and are therefore immoral and to be avoided to the best of one's abilities, especially if one wishes oneself to be left to live in peace and liberty..”
― Mango Wodzak

“[W]hat gets defined as crime, and who gets surveilled and punished, generally has more to do with the politics of race and class than the harm that any particular behavior or activity causes. As Alec Karakatsanis observes in Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, people with race and class privilege are generally shielded from criminal prosecution, even though their crimes often cause far greater harm than the crimes of the poor. The most obvious example is the prosecutorial response to the financial crisis of 2008 and the related scandals . . .”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“As much as there is a culprit in one's death, so there is in one's suffering.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“One vote will do no harm, but one non deserving elected might!”
― -ipi(human_bot)

“Two people absorb each other’s frequencies so much that they can do both harm and good over time.”
― Amy Wolkenhauer

“That fact that someone can convincingly lie to themselves to uphold an untruth makes it no less dishonest. Or harmful.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“The justice of nature is a pledge of reciprocal usefulness ... neither to harm one another nor to be harmed … Justice was not a thing in its own right, but [exists] in mutual dealings in whatever places there [is] a pact about neither harming one another nor being harmed. ~ Epicurus”
― Catherine Wilson, How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well

“Proficiency in martial arts is the practice of keeping centered and skillfully responsive under the direst of circumstances: the threat of physical harm.”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

“Never harm anyone or any creature.
Treat everyone the way you treat yourself”
― Srinivart

“You have the right to live but you have no right to harm any creature on this planet.
Never harm anyone or any creature.”
― Srinivart

“How would you feel if someone harms you?
Every creature also feels the same way, the way you feel.
Suffers the same way, the way you suffer.
Never harm anyone or any creature.”
― Srinivart

“I have always felt safest alone on the side of a hard-to-reach wall or a mountain. Although I understand that I could die in the mountains, I trust the hand of nature, and I know it will do me no harm. People seem to change and do confusing things. Places, on the other hand, I can count on.”
― Steph Davis, High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity

“The greater the distance you are from the people you are harming, the easier it is on your conscience.”
― Mary Aiken, The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online

“Be humble, you will not be harm.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita