Individual Harm Quotes

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

If something happens to me, the government is co-responsible.

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

The injustice to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles.

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.

Kathy Shelton was a private citizen whose life was destroyed.

I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.