A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
Friedrich List
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Khalil Gibran
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
George Bernard Shaw
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.
Debra Wilson
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
John Zimmerman
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
Edward Coke
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Tertullian
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba
We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
Peter Yarrow
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato
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