Top 325 Harm Quotes

No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
David McCullough
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don’t need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.
Simon Mainwaring
I am no more young. So there is no harm in playing an elderly role.
Hema Malini
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Plato
Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Epicurus
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Mary Douglas
I sometimes worry that by encouraging so many more people to try their hand at baking through ‘The Great British Bake Off,’ I’m going to find myself in court one day charged with accelerating the national epidemic of obesity! To which I will plead not guilty. A slice of Victoria sandwich is never going to harm anyone.
Paul Hollywood
There’s no harm in me. Really, I’m just a big kid.
John Lydon
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
Mary Douglas
I’m not really concerned if people have this purist view of the New York Supreme thing. If they think opening our shop in Paris is going to harm our brand, then we can’t really be that strong of a brand.
James Jebbia
I don’t mind if someone yells a motto out of their car at me. ‘No touching! No touching!’ No harm is done.
Jeffrey Tambor
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inactio

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
Jef Raskin
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Kuang
A big player coming in can change the dynamics of the dressing room, upset the rhythm of the team and end up doing more harm than good.
Eniola Aluko
I’ve been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
Oleg Cassini
I may speak my mind and come across as opinionated sometimes, but I would never want to harm anyone intentionally.
Farrah Abraham
I’m white. I have privileges as a parent that many others don’t. Of not only teaching but expecting my daughter to stand up for herself because I have no fear that harm will come to her when she does. I am reassured by her teachers that her willfulness will do her good as she gets older.
Stephanie Land
For a long time, I was very naive and very trusting. I Just didn’t think anyone would want to do anything to harm me, but I learned through trial and error that that’s not the case.
Margo Price
Many people of color live on the front lines of environmental hazard and harm.
Martin Luther King III
Where we’re not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we’re not going to settle.
Lee Scott
I wanted to write ‘In Harm’s Way’ from the young men’s point of view of being in a raft, or hanging in a life vest with just their nose poking above the water.
Doug Stanton
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
William Kingdon Clifford
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
Henry Rollins
The way I eat is a heavy statement on my belief system. I eat cruelty-free. It is my way of being able to take a stand against doing harm to any living creature.
Torrey DeVitto
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Norm Dicks
If I were to ask any parent, ‘Do you love your kid?’ the answer would unequivocally be, ‘Yes.’ If I went on to ask, ‘What would you do to protect your kid from harm’s way?’ any rational parent would answer without skipping a beat, ‘Anything.’
Suzy Shuster
I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
Sam Brownback
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
John Maynard Keynes
We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.
Mike Crapo
You know what else I’ve learnt? That it’s all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven’t come to any harm yet.
Jennifer Ehle
I don’t be bringing harm to people.
Ahmad Balshe
I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
Melissa Etheridge
I think it’s pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It’s really a pathetic statement for our country.
Mark Fuhrman
I personally try to buy the best-quality items at the best price that do the least harm and from companies that are striving to do good – many of those companies are run by young entrepreneurs.
Neil Blumenthal
When we carried out air strike across the border after the Pulwama terror attack, we had told the international community that we took that step in self-defence only. We had told the international community that the armed forces were instructed not to harm any Pakistani citizen or its soldier during the strike.
Sushma Swaraj
The Internet, one of the great inventions of the modern Western world, has shown itself to be a weapon that can be used to incite and train those who wish to cause harm to that world.
Richard N. Haass
We’ll never move beyond oil until we stop rewarding oil companies with ridiculous taxpayer subsidies and start making them pay for the harm they cause our families and our planet.
Sheldon Whitehouse
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke
As a proud mum of three, I know we all want what is best for our children – to protect and shield them from anything that would do them harm, especially a deadly virus.
Kemi Badenoch
A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of ‘spiritual’ truth.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
I believe that a lot of what we put in our bodies really can harm us. It’s been proven that people who eat Mediterranean and Japanese diets live for a very long time.
Cote de Pablo
There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn’t fit with what’s the norm or what’s acceptable. There’s something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
Kara Walker
One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is

One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness.
Michael Burry
Well, we’ve faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we – since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm’s way.
Laura Bush
When I was writing my first book, ‘In Harm’s Way,’ I witnessed the sense of sacrifice that those WWII veterans possessed. I was surprised that sometimes their grandchildren hadn’t talked to them about the historic events of that night in July 1945, when the USS Indianapolis went down.
Doug Stanton
There is no harm in making people laugh by making fun of yourself. What’s wrong is when people derive pleasure from making fun of others.
Diljit Dosanjh
The idea of witches has always scared me because of the idea that there are Machiavellian forces out there that conspire to hurt others. There are people who do not have your best interest at heart and are actively willing to do harm to you and actively sending energy in that direction.
Ari Aster
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.
Mark Twain
The world needs yoga. This stuff is powerful and intense. It has the power to harm when held tightly, studied without practice, and posed rigidly. Done right, it also has the ability to heal and cure.
Tara Stiles
Radiation doesn’t recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality is affected. We all eat the same fish. We use products from all over the world – if something is contaminated, it will cause harm.
Wladimir Klitschko
Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Yehuda Berg
I’m fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things – the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it’s so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
Forest Whitaker
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo
To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
Eric Metaxas
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