Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher
You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)
“Most harm is done by people who are awake.”
The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, May 16, 2008
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“He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
οἷ γ᾽ αὐτῷ κακὰ τεύχει ἀνὴρ ἄλλῳ κακὰ τεύχων<br>ἡ δὲ κακὴ βουλὴ τῷ βουλεύσαντι κακίστη. <br class="br">The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it. <br class="br">He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe,<br>and evil counsel recoils on the counsellor. https://archive.org/stream/b24865898#page/432/mode/2up <br class="br">Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), lines 265-266
“The harm that I have not done, what harm it has done!”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El mal que no he hecho, ¡cuánto mal ha hecho!
Voces (1943)
Mark Rowley (1964) British police officer
Far-right terror threat 'growing' in UK as four plots foiled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43200966 BBC News (26 February 2018)
“It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
As quoted in American Heritage (December 1955), p. 44
Context: I disagree with my brother Charles and Theodore Roosevelt. I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. These facts have nothing to do with the case and should not have been allowed to interfere with just penalties. It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.
“He who defends the Jew harms his own people.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
"Der Jude," Der Angriff. Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1935
1930s
“What harm have the trees done them?”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
he said. “Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren)
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Random Thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101705.asp, Oct. 17, 2005 <br class="br">2000s
