Moral Harm Quotes

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

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.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Liberty and equality are not only destructive to the morals, but to the happiness of society.

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

I would equate the legalization of drugs to the moral equivalent of genocide.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will sap spiritual strength to endure. Pornography is much like quicksand. You can become so easily trapped and overcome as soon as you step into it that you do not realize the severe danger. Most likely you will need assistance to get out of the quicksand of pornography. But how much better it is never to step into it. I plead with you to be careful and cautious.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.