Unintentional Harm Quotes

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

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

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.

I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

On Bergessio, in 2013, I made a reckless tackle and I was so sorry. I told him I was sorry a thousand times but I couldn't give him back the piece that I broke.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

I had a couple of experiences as a kid with animals where I hurt them, kind of unintentionally, and when I saw that a human being can hurt an animal it really affected me. And my kids...they became animal rights activists.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

It was never my intention to hurt people's feelings.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.

There's a big difference between being racist and racially insensitive.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.