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Definition of Harm

Harm

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

To hurt; to injure; to damage; to wrong.

Related Definitions:

Damage, Detriment, Hurt, Injure, Injury, Loss, Misfortune, Or, That, To, Which, Wrong

Harm Quotations

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai Lama

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Plato

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Barack Obama

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Michael Jackson

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Milton Friedman

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
Milton Friedman

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
Milton Friedman

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.
T. S. Eliot

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard Dawkins

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Pope John Paul II

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill

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Harm Translations

harm in Dutch is kwetsen, letsel toebrengen
harm in German is Leid, Voreingenommenheit
harm in Italian is penoso, difetto, prevenzione, guaio
harm in Latin is vulnero
harm in Norwegian is ugang, skade
harm in Portuguese is dano
harm in Swedish is skada, ont

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