Interpersonal Harm Quotes

If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other people harm black people. I think it's an irresponsible argument.

You know what's the greatest sin in the world? Hurting your fellow man.

There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

I think us humans are just so cruel to each other. We just want to keep judging each other on our looks.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.