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Awareness is the main thing, i think people just aren't aware that something so seemingly harmless could actually be damaging. I think people are probably more aware that, for example, batteries contain chemicals that can damage the gut very substantially, but magnets seem very innocuous objects. – Richard Hesketh	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence. – Alfred Jarry	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions. – Eleanor Roosevelt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If you injure a harmless person, the evil will fall back upon you, like light dust thrown up against the wind. – Buddhist	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. – Sir Robert Hutchison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. – Umberto Eco	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. – Margaret Halsey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours. – A. M. Rosenthal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. – Sir Robert Hutchinson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless) – Douglas Noel Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Awareness is the main thing, i think people just aren't aware that something so seemingly harmless could actually be damaging. I think people are probably more aware that, for example, batteries contain chemicals that can damage the gut very substantially, but magnets seem very innocuous objects.

– Richard Hesketh

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

– Alfred Jarry

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

– Aleister Crowley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

– Charles Dickens

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If you injure a harmless person, the evil will fall back upon you, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

– Buddhist

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

– Sir Robert Hutchison

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

– Umberto Eco