“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“It is an undoubted truth that, if a thing is not learned well, there is more harm done than good acquired.”
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
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George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Letter to Frederick Ayers (5 May 1943), published in The Patton Papers 1940-1945 (1996) edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 242
Context: The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.
“The plow has probably done more harm — in the long run — than the sword.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100
“Love is not always evil, truth to tell;
Though harm he does, he serves the good as well.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Dunque Amor sempre rio non si ritrova:
Se spesso nuoce, anco talvolta giova.
Canto XXV, stanza 2 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“On balance Mao did more good than harm.”
Diane Abbott (1953) British Labour Party politician
On BBC One's This Week during a debate over who was the history's worst dictator. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/27/diane-abbott-said-on-balance-mao-did-more-good-than-harm_n_8660910.html (27/11/2015) <br class="br">2010s, 2015
Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician
Quoted in "Tony Abbott says climate change is 'probably doing good'" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/10/tony-abbott-says-climate-change-is-probably-doing-good, The Guardian, October 10, 2017 <br class="br">2017
“There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Source: 1920s, Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
“A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain