A harmful truth is better than a useful lie

Give me Harry Potter,” said Voldemort’s voice, “and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded. “You have until midnight.

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied.

These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional “victims” who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial principle will become harmful if carried far enough

Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

I’ve read quite a few readers’ reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, ‘Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.’ I don’t do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking – which has really been harmful.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

A drug more harmful than the so-called heroic drugs has entered the national culture: easy money. The idea flourished that the law is the greatest obstacle to happiness, that learning to read and write is useless, that one lives better and safer as a criminal than as good people. In short: the state of social perversion typical of every larvae war.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity…

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Bad company does a man real harm, for, as the old proverb has it, if you lie down with dogs you will get up with fleas.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

To read too many books is harmful.

The place where french-postmodernism has been really harmful is the Third World. Because Third World intellectuals are badly needed in popular movements, they can make contributions. And a lot of them is drawn away from this: antropologists, sociologists and others. They are drawn away in this arcane, and in my view, mostly meaningless discourses and are disassociated from popular struggles. And you can see the impact. They really indicate that the level of irrationality that grows out of this undermines the oportunities for doing something really significant and important. It is like consumerism because it diverts people from concentrating in a serious way and doing something about their own problems.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.

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

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.