more harm than good

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The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good. Francis Bacon

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. George S. Patton

You are to bring my message to those ensnared in the drug-net of illusion that they should abstain, that the drugs will bring more harm than good. I send my love to them. Meher Baba

I see what Gene is driving at. To dream of changing the whole universe in accordance with a set of local preconceptions!... Oh, it's ridiculous!” "A missionary,” Gene repeated with a solemn nod. "By definition: a person who does without intending it more harm than good. John Brunner

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. Mary Douglas

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. Mary Douglas

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