Minimal Harm Quotes

Was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

That's all I want- to do no harm.

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

I just don’t want to get hit, that’s all. I want to win without getting hit.

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

No animal has to suffer for me to live.

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

We use a curtain, so we don't use a net, so there's nothing sea life can get entangled with. And also, the system moves very slowly. It moves around 4 inches per second on average. So really, the chances of sea life being harmed by this are very minimal.

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

However, a Jedi who only fights in self defense and draws his lightsaber only to defend the innocent or to strike down his foe as quickly and painlessly as possible, that's what the lightsaber is for. That's what a Jedi is supposed to be. That's how it's supposed to go down. It's not supposed to be pretty or flashy. It's simply a necessary move. And that's it. Only the most necessary moves survive into the original Star Wars trilogy.

The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.