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Harmful Quotes (page 11)

Barbarism? Hah! When we kills people we do it there and then, lookin' 'em in the eye, and we'd be happy to buy 'em a drink in the next world, no harm done. I never knew a barbarian who cut up people slowly in little rooms, or tortured women to make 'em look pretty, or put poison in people's grub. Civilization? If that's civilization, you can shove it where the sun don't shine! Terry Prachett
My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon forty sins, who sucked the lifeblood of the poor, and you call that a crime ? Fyodor Dostoevsky
But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and which do little harm in an existence that otherwise goes unnoticed. Richard Ford
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done Jane Austen
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
P. D. James quote: "It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly..."
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed. P. D. James
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it. Simon Armitage
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of..."
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. Friedrich Nietzsche
John Steinbeck quote: "I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm,..."
I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George. John Steinbeck
It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these focal points or reminders, the belief that all is holy and "big with God" will soon dwindle into a mere sentiment. But if these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. C. S. Lewis
I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman. L. M. Montgomery
But then the elf-child sighed, and gave up her sport; because it grieved her to have done harm to a little being that was as wild as the sea-breeze, or as wild as Pearl herself. Nathaniel Hawthorne
We must find him...Some harm will fall upon our friend in his craziness. We must search through the whole world until we find him. John Steinbeck
Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked. Frances Hodgson Burnett
The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. H. P. Lovecraft

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