Charles Mackay Quotes

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

A few losses won't hurt anybody.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

Few men know all the ill they do.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?

Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

How much damage will have been done before we act?

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.

What happens to the rest of something when you smash its heart?

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.