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harmless QUOTES

81 " No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or, God forbid, a Revisionist. But " epicurean" sounded so harmless it could not possibly imply that one was not an orthodox Marxist. "

82 " These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle, and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm. For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased, and I turned away with disgust and loathing. "

― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

83 " The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, " had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man. "

84 " People, heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think they are harmless and not very strong, and the next thing you know it is an hour later and you are in the bathroom of the bar with your pants off, surrounded by five girls, giving your boxers to a bachelorette party because one of the girls is cute and told you that you had a nice butt. Be forewarned.
- from the Austin Road Trip story "

― Tucker Max

85 " A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge. "

86 " Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. "

87 " Definition of a bridegroom: A man who is amazed at the outcome of what he thought was a harmless little flirtation. "

88 " Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism does he write " I had a fun time" ? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing. "

89 " 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. "

90 " Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves. "

91 " Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. "

92 " I was on tour with Little Dragon with the Gorillaz. She's got an amazing voice and is a lovely girl. Her vibe is fresh pressed and harmless fun with a tinge of the dark side if you look in the right bits of the tunes. "

93 " Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. "

― Milton Friedman , Capitalism and Freedom

94 " But now 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