Plato Quotes

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

Few men know all the ill they do.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

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.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

One wrong submitted to, another follows.

Out of bad motives good things often come.

The tyranny we impose on others, we will eventually impose on ourselves.

A lot of evil has been perpetrated in the name of confronting evil.

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

We believe that talented people with bad values can do far more damage than virtuous people with lesser talents.

It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt.