Harmful Intent Quotes

Bad people will find a way to do harm, whether it's homemade explosives, illegal weapons, or flying planes into buildings. Restricting law-abiding citizens' right to bear arms is not the answer.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.

If you tell me you are going to kill yourself, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.

Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain.

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

How about I let you floss with my jugular as well?

If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them.

What we may think is funny or cute may end up being powerfully hurtful.

The Internet, one of the great inventions of the modern Western world, has shown itself to be a weapon that can be used to incite and train those who wish to cause harm to that world.

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.