Social Harm Quotes

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit, to society, and scattered with equal hand throughout all its conditions.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Among the most oppressive measures, and the ones most deeply harming society, is the compelling of subjects to perform forced work unjustly.

Slavery is a slow poison to the morals of any community where it exists.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

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

The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutality of the bad people

Every kind and degree of evil of which mankind are susceptible may be inflicted on them by their government.

For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.