Inflict Pain Quotes

#1. I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

Shaquille O'Neal

#2. Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

Max De Pree

#3. He's dead Duncan, killed himself when I was 13. In all those years he forgot something vital. He taught me when he was learning for himself. I know how to inflict pain; the scary thing is it doesn't bother me, a trait I'm sure I inherited from him. Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt

Ashley Jeffery

#4. If you are just, then don't fear the warrior who walks among you. If you are not just and inflict pain and suffering on the innocent, then fear the law and the warrior that brings it." Anonymous

Jac Jacobsen

#5. These days, we take pride in being tough enough to inflict pain on others.

Tony Judt

#6. In any form or fashion, people are finding a way to inflict pain and sadness on people, on a daily basis. We have this situation in Turkey, we have this situation with ISIS, and we have our own internal fights within the United States.

Edwin Hodge

#7. Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.

Thiruvalluvar

#8. It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

Helen Prejean

#9. Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.

Frans De Waal

#10. One writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain.

Elena Ferrante

#11. Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

George Will

#12. But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.

Mitch Albom

#13. Apache have the strongest nation in the world behind them. So we're going to inflict pain where our European aunts and uncles had to endure it. And so the fact that you could actually get Nazis scared of a band of Jews, that's - again, that's a gigantic psychological thing.

Quentin Tarantino

#14. Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.

Elena Ferrante

#15. Bullies are ultimately unhappy people who try to inflict pain and hate on others and are to be pitied. Once you realize that, their words can no longer hurt you.

Frankie J. Grande

#16. Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

George Meredith

#17. All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction

Dalai Lama XIV

#18. A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Max De Pree

#19. My sadistic husband has a soft side, too, and even though he likes to inflict pain on me, I know he would never hurt me beyond what I can handle.

Ella Dominguez

#20. As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

John Fund

#21. Listen ... You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless.

David Gemmell

#22. Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

Tracy Thompson

#23. The (narcissitic) rage may turn into, or be accompanied by, a cold hatred that gives her qualities of power, invincibility, and calculation. This hatred underlies the desire for vengeance, for wanting to inflict pain and suffering, and for actually enjoying getting back at the person who failed her.

A.H. Almaas

#24. keep in mind that even those who love you can unknowningly inflict pain when they themselves are hurting

Sarah Dosher

#25. Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.

David W. Earle

#26. I always had a desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything that hurt.

Albert Fish

#27. Girls kind of get crazy when they have guns. These girls had never done it, and all they wanted to do was inflict as much pain as they could. We had one rule: Don't shoot us between the legs. But their aim didn't necessarily follow that rule.

Jon Heder

#28. They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

Elie Wiesel

#29. We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Jim Morrison

#30. Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.

Angela Carter

#31. If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments

Howard Zehr

#32. Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man's capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man's desire for power, to beat down his competition - it hasn't changed in the slightest.

Gemma Malley

#33. Numbers are a lot like people. They each have a story. They interact with one another. They entertain. They inform. They deceive. They can create happiness or inflict enormous pain. You have to know how to get them to talk.

Lee Goldberg

#34. Still, it is surely true of all animals, and all conscious people, that the pain we inflict on each other is in some ways due process for living in the world.

Liz Stephens

#35. The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Alice Childress

#36. Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Karen Armstrong

#37. There is no pain you or anyone could inflict on me worse than the pain I bear within myself.

Tracy Hickman

#38. Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.

Aneta Cruz

#39. I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.

Lydia Lunch

#40. People who are hard on others are usually very hard on themselves, and the pain they inflict on others is a reflection of the pain they inflict on themselves.

Bryant McGill

#41. Some people run from pain their whole lives, and what pain they do not digest they inflict upon others.

Bryant McGill

#42. When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

Sydney J. Harris

#43. No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

Ruth Ozeki

#44. Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Harold Laski

#45. We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.

Bryant McGill

#46. As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don't hurt others.

Omar Khayyam

#47. How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain

Nietzsche Friedrich

#48. Before hurting others, feel the pain you will inflict on others.

Debasish Mridha

#49. Not that I'm the kind of person who would actually inflict emotional pain on another human being out of a selfish, twisted need for revenge.
I just like to think about it.

Jennifer Gilby Roberts

#50. In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict.

Astley Cooper

#51. Are there really people on this earth who deliberately set out to do evil things? Who say to themselves, I want to hurt people, to inflict all the pain I can, to make their lives impossible?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#52. In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Carol Tavris

#53. Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#54. Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

David Platt

#55. The idea of a priori moral judgements ('It is morally wrong to inflict gratuitous pain') is completely acceptable to the vast majority of human beings. Only a few philosophers would disagree.

William Boyd

#56. Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

Naomi Wolf

#57. I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.

Neil Sheehan

#58. The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

Sophocles

#59. In a friendship, especially in a friendship between two young boys, you are allowed to inflict a certain amount of pain. This is even expected. But you must cause no serious injury; you must never, under any circumstances, leave wounds that will result in permanent scars.

Joe Hill

#60. The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.

Sophocles

#61. There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

China Mieville

#62. It is a grave disservice to the heart, soul, body and spirit of a woman when she is given the subtle message that the truth of her own pain is not as important as the reputation of the ones who inflict it.

Hillary McFarland

#63. It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter ... The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.

Jim Harbaugh

#64. He had a childish urge to throw the phone down. Only the prospect of the pain he'd inflict on himself in the process of leaning over to retrieve it stopped him from giving in to the impulse.

Samanthe Beck

#65. But man should abstain from judging his innocently cruel fellow creatures, for even if nature sometimes "shrieks against his creed", what pain does he himself not inflict upon the living creatures that he hunts for pleasure and not for food?

Konrad Lorenz

#66. The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

Julian Baggini