Deliberate Harm Quotes

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

I never wanted anybody to think that I deliberately hurt opponents. The vast majority of players are the same.

We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

The league has to be sensitive about what crosses the line and what doesn't. It's tough to determine what is a legal hit and what isn't a legal hit, and if someone was deliberately trying to hurt someone or not. A certain integrity, though, has to be maintained.

You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger. Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

… sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal acts

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

The truth is that I think that most people, and most people in this book, 'Goodbye, Stranger', are really doing their best but they're stumbling all over the place and they're hurting each other deliberately and by accident.

The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Harm seek, harm find.