harm

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
4f55baa	All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.	relationship love curelty endurance commitment unkindness harm health forgiveness	Bell Hooks
7e563ba	If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?	rage people life friend friends-betrayal harm wrongdoing society deceit evil	Molière
989e0bc	I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.	mankind harm ghosts	Alexandre Dumas
0065d00	I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.	humanity ethical-system virulent-god educational-system confucianism useful monotheism judaism disaster harm islam	Gore Vidal
544989d	There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.	truth funeral harm	Agatha Christie
b91fb4f	In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.	travel harm danger protection	Tahir Shah
96b2e45	Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not an adventure.	risk sacrifice life risk-taking harm	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
6204dc8	Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.	plausibility harm	Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4f55baa

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

relationship love curelty endurance commitment unkindness harm health forgiveness

Bell Hooks

7e563ba

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?

rage people life friend friends-betrayal harm wrongdoing society deceit evil

Molière

989e0bc

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

mankind harm ghosts

Alexandre Dumas

0065d00

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

humanity ethical-system virulent-god educational-system confucianism useful monotheism judaism disaster harm islam

Gore Vidal

544989d

There's a convention that one doesn't speak ill of the dead. That's stupid, I think. The truth's always the truth. On the whole it's better to keep your mouth shut about living people. You might conceivably injure them. The dead are past that. But the harm they've done lives after them sometimes.

truth funeral harm

Agatha Christie

b91fb4f

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.

travel harm danger protection

Tahir Shah

96b2e45

Life is sacrifice and risk taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not an adventure.

risk sacrifice life risk-taking harm

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

6204dc8

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

plausibility harm

Nassim Nicholas Taleb