Famous quotes containing the words injury, determining and/or effects:
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.”
—Herbert Spencer (18201903)