If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U. S. economy.
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.
Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
If somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then perhaps there are other things that our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems that we have in society.
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
I seek the truth. . . it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal. . . [even if] the animal were a human being.
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.
Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.
Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.
They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.
Do that which is good, and no harm shall come to thee.
Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.
Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
If you look back at the 1960's in the United States, and if you think that more good was done than harm, you are probably a Democrat. If you think that more harm was done than good, then you're probably a Republican.
Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.