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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. -- Hippocrates
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. -- Florence Nightingale
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. -- Vladimir Nabokov
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. -- John Locke
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. -- Francis of Assisi
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 evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. -- Albert Camus
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. -- John Stuart Mill
Harm seek, harm find. -- Aesop
Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral. -- Nhat Hanh
Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters. -- Gautama Buddha
Anyone who loves the concept of Zero Harm obviously has nothing to love -- Dave Collins
Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm. -- A. S. Byatt
Do I believe in the concept of Zero Harm? Let's just say I believe that nothing is impossible -- Dave Collins
I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
We Are Always Scared of Wild Beasts, Yet We Are Unaware About The Wildest Beast Within Us Which Does More Harm Than The Ordinary One. -- Muhammad Imran Hasan
Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you. -- John Muir
There is no harm in repeating a good thing. -- Plato
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. -- David McCullough
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another. -- Plato
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us -- Voltaire
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. -- Laozi
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. -- Laozi
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. -- Dalai Lama
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. -- Oliver Goldsmith
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. -- John Paul Jones
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm. -- Anna Maria Chavez
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
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
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. -- John Muir
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm. -- Barbara Mikulski
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good. -- Samantha Power
We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again. -- Paul Kagame
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. -- Johnny Depp
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. -- T. S. Eliot
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. -- Voltaire
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. -- Oscar Wilde
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. -- Pope John Paul II
I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary. -- Michael J. Fox
Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves. -- Mitch Albom
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations. -- Zig Ziglar
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. -- Jane Austen
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? -- Ted Olson
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. -- Blaise Pascal
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
Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm. -- Jack Kornfield
I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares. -- Andre Balazs
I know I have a reputation that is not so flattering, but I guess I owe it to just being a private person. I don't mean anyone harm, and I'm not being mean. I just don't socialise much; I don't party too much. I don't know what to say to the media if I'm not talking about a film that I am doing, so yeah, maybe I am perceived as a snob. -- Shahid Kapoor
First do no harm! -- Sophie E. Tallis
Shadows cannot harm the almighty! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Committees do harm merely by existing. -- Freeman Dyson
Pleasure bought with pain does harm. -- Horace
The unspoken word never does harm. -- Lajos Kossuth
Be lovely and do no harm. -- Louise Erdrich
Good men do the most harm. -- Henry Adams
To harm another is to harm oneself -- Socrates
Books don't harm kids; they arm them. -- Mem Fox
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm) -- Hippocrates
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. -- Victor Hugo
Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied -- Gail Carriger
Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm. -- Edith Sitwell
Wine taken in moderation never does any harm. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Truth between candid minds can never do harm. -- Thomas Jefferson
Evil person causes harm even if treated will. -- Chanakya
The harm done is often difficult to repair. -- Cat Stevens
Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause -- Ibn Taymiyyah
Where is the harm in the wireless industry? -- Steve Largent
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Do the least harm and the most good. -- H. Jay Dinshah
Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm. -- Thomas Tusser
That's all I want- to do no harm. -- Gregory Maguire
An it harm none, do what ye will. -- Doreen Valiente
There is no harm in a man's cub. -- Rudyard Kipling
Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking. -- Eden Phillpotts
We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. -- Benjamin Franklin
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Buddhism's cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm. -- Gil Fronsdal
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm. -- Aeschylus
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. -- Oscar Wilde
There is a time when even justice brings harm. -- Sophocles
A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort. -- Gillian Flynn
No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm. -- J.V. Hart
Most harm is done by people who are awake. -- Jeremy Hardy
The dead do not harm us, only the alive. -- Rosie Thomas
I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that? -- Nelly
Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God. -- John Wesley
I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it -- Jennifer Aniston
A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one. -- Santosh Kalwar
Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights. -- Barack Obama
There are laws for everything except the harm families do. -- Sue Grafton
There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions. -- Milton Friedman
It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent. -- Hassan Nasrallah
Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves. -- Tabitha Suzuma
The way of heaven is to help and not harm. -- Laozi
The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb -- Brother Ali
They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is. -- Charlaine Harris
There are times when even justice brings harm with it. -- Sophocles
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. -- Homer
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. -- Emily Dickinson
Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm! -- Tennessee Williams
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. -- Michelangelo
The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline -- Shantideva
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way. -- Ovid
There are things that can harm a lot more than physically. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me. -- Michael Palin
Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies. -- James Cook
If he'd done something to harm her, I would annihilate him. -- Stephenie Meyer
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. -- Sylvia Plath
I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm. -- Karen Marie Moning
People fear what they can't understand and harm what they fear. -- Heather Brewer
Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves. -- Carl Zimmer
To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. -- Chief Seattle
Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. -- Jerry Weller
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm. -- Plutarch

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