Injury Quotes
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
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Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
tench coxe— "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution," under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789.
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
Alexander the Great— Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius III of Persia in response to a truce plea, as quoted in Anabasis Alexandri by Arrian; translated as Anabasis of Alexander by P. A. Brunt, for the "Loeb Edition" Book II 14, 4
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.
Alexander Hamilton— No. 33
My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer— how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests...The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.
robert peel— Speech in the House of Commons (11 March 1842).
Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences... Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge , since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world. And what is worse, men who are thus Ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance and so do not seek a remedy.
roger bacon— cited in: Morris Kline (1969) Mathematics and the physical world. p. 1
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.
carl jung— "Woman in Europe" (1927) In CW 10: Civilization in Transition. P.245
The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.
— Lady Elizabeth Carew, chorus from "Maxiam"
Better that an individual should suffer an injury than that the public should suffer an inconvenience.
william henry ashurst— Russell v. The Mayor of Devon (1788), 1 T. R. 673.
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
edward coke— Semayne's Case, 77 Eng. Rep. 194, 195; 5 Co. Rep. 91, 195 (K.B. 1604).
Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
patañjali— Translation by: Charles Johnston
A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"
phaedrus— Book V, fable 3, line 1.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
Christopher Reeve— Testimony to a U.S House of Representatives subcommittee, on NIH funding for the year 2000 (14 April 1999)
The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.
sam harris— p. 32 (Letter to a Christian Nation (2006))
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.
charles evans hughes— Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931).
Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 64 (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012))
To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 43 (Phineas Redux (1874))
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
Sir Edward Coke— Sir Edward Coke, Reports, Semaynes' Case, Volume III, Part V, p. 185.
O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years; and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew how to love himself.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 3, line 312.
Better that an individual should suffer an injury than that the public should suffer an inconvenience.
— Russell v. The Mayor of Devon (1788), 1 T. R. 673.
Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences... Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge , since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world. And what is worse, men who are thus Ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance and so do not seek a remedy.
— cited in: Morris Kline (1969) Mathematics and the physical world. p. 1
The well-known maxim that you must not, when you have the choice, elect to use your property so as to cause injury to your neighbour.1
— Brett, M.R., Whalley v. Lancashire, &c. Rail. Co. (1884), 13 L: R. Q. B. D. 137. 1 The maxim is Sic utere tuo vt alienum non ladat, 9 Rep. 59. See Br, Leg. Max., tith ed., 347.
Surely every injury imports a damage, though it does not cost the party one farthing, and it is impossible to prove the contrary; for a damage is not merely pecuniary, but an injury imports a damage, when a man is hereby hindered of his right.
— Holt, C.J., Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Raym. 955.
Personal injury is a more serious matter than damage to property.
— Cockburn, C.J., Reg. v. Heppinstale (1859), 7 W. R. 178.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin, p. 251 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.
— Tillotson, p. 252 (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
If you consider that the constant tenor of the gospel precepts is to promote love , peace , good-will among men you will not doubt that the cultivation of an amiable disposition is a great part your religious duty ; since nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity , and to the injury and molestation of our fellow creatures , than the indulgence of an ill-temper.
— Hester Chapone in:Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Cambridge University Press, 21 November 2013, p.120
Flesh can not be procured without causing destruction of life; one who uses flesh, therefore, commits himsa (injury) unavoidable.
— Jainism, in "Humanimal", p. 161 (J)
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
thomas jefferson— Thomas Jefferson, Query 17 in Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1785).
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
— Martin Amis, in Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children
