Harm Perception Quotes

I can't, myself, determine what offends another person.

Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.