Quotes About Inflict

#1. That's how we're connected: through the hurt we inflict on one another.

Carsten Jensen

#2. It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering.

Virginia Woolf

#3. The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

George Eliot

#4. FOOVIEW (foo' view) n. The ability of a dog to inflict guilt from any angle in the room while he watches his master eat.

Rich Hall

#5. The truth is only dangerous if it can inflict injury.

Morgan Rhodes

#6. The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.

Bella Forrest

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

Debasish Mridha

#8. Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly.

Socrates

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

Max De Pree

#10. Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy.

Dean Koontz

#11. Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

Mark Lawrence

#12. Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

Tertullian

#13. I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.

Troy Soos

#14. Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

Publilius Syrus

#15. The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

Gary L. Francione

#16. But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking others, he turns on himself in order to inflict merciless tortures.

Emil Cioran

#17. Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Honore De Balzac

#18. If these modern peoples could inflict the most barbaric treatment and persecution on another group of human beings, then there was something very, very deplorable with our species. No amount of education or technological progress was going to make any difference in altering human savagery.

Mitchell Diamond

#19. Lord, I am willing
To receive what You give.
To lack what You withhold.
To relinquish what You take,
To suffer what You inflict,
To be what you require.

Jerry Bridges

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

Shaquille O'Neal

#21. The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

Oliver Ellsworth

#22. I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!

Samuel Richardson

#23. When men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

James A. Michener

#24. There are evils . . . that men inflict upon one another, such as tyrannical domination of some of them over others. - THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED, III, 2

Joel L. Kraemer

#25. Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

CrimethInc.

#26. I wonder what's worse-the invisible scars they leave or the visible scars I inflict upon myself?

Kathryn Perez

#27. I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

Alan Furst

#28. Revenge is a frequent motive in suicides, you know. They feel it is someone's fault their lives have been unsuccessful, and they want to inflict this guilt on others by committing suicide.

Jo Nesbo

#29. She liked him too much to marry him, that was the point; something told her that she should not be satisfied, and to inflict upon a man who offered so much a wife with a tendency to criticize would be a peculiarly discreditable act.

Henry James

#30. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. "Why

Mark Lawrence

#31. When Taft gives way to his (anger), one reporter observed, it is to inflict a merciless thrashing upon its victim, for whom thereafter he has no use whatsoever. With Roosevelt is a case of powder and spark; there is a vivid flash and a deafening roar, but when the smoke is blown away, it is the end.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

Dalai Lama XIV

#33. There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Denis Diderot

#34. I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

Richard Griffiths

#35. Revenge is as the tigers spring,
Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real
Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel.

George Gordon Byron

#36. Wounded can inflict the most painful wounds without hesitation.

Bella Forrest

#37. The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Annie Besant

#38. Implacable man can inflict on one who has offended

Charlotte Bronte

#39. Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

David Lehman

#40. The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

James Russell Lowell

#41. Satan's greatest power was not that he could inflict evil. His greatest power was to make the sons of God forget who they were.

Deepak Chopra

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

Max De Pree

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence,

Diane Nash

#46. 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

#47. It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred

Demi Lovato

#48. Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we'd received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict.

Andrew Solomon

#49. When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.

Joyce Rachelle

#50. We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

William Lloyd Garrison

#51. Children were in fact ferocious little animals, sharp and canny and hurt and eager to inflict hurt themselves, who were trying to get what they needed in life.

Pamela Erens

#52. We should hold abusers - and no one else - responsible for the damage they inflict.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#53. Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#54. What is she to me? Except a menace - a danger you've chosen to inflict on all of us.

Stephenie Meyer

#55. When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

Jordan Belfort

#56. One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England

Steven Morrissey

#57. If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

Dennis Prager

#58. 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

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

John Fund

#60. If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Miguel Syjuco

#61. There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

George S. Patton

#62. Mostly I've been in the office, trying to inflict a paper cut on myself serious enough to require medical leave.

Abigail Roux

#63. Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.

Wong Kiew Kit

#64. The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.

Bob Ainsworth

#65. As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

Tony Kushner

#66. Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

Chris Prentiss

#67. 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

#68. Thoughts have the power,
To change how you perceive the world around you,
To inflict worry, or make peace abound too.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#69. It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.

Robert Owen

#70. We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.

Salman Khurshid

#71. 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

#72. Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

Honore De Balzac

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#74. Sorry, ladies. I guess that's our cue. We like to storm into town, inflict maximum damage, and then disappear ... like a KISS concert.

Brian K. Vaughan

#75. 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

#76. We can't be impatient with him," I said. "We can't inflict our desperation on him.

M. Pierce

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

Tracy Thompson

#78. No punishment anyone might inflict on them could possibly be worse than the punishment they inflict on themselves by conspiring in their own diminishment.

Parker J. Palmer

#79. People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#80. 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

#81. It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#82. 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

#83. I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

Christopher Hitchens

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

Naomi Wolf

#85. There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Albert Schweitzer

#86. Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.

Jack London

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

Sarah Dosher

#88. God's 'permission' of evil so multiplied is not simply to be accounted for by his respecting our free will. He takes the harms we mutually inflict and overrules them for our good.

Jocelyn Gibb

#89. It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

Frank Herbert

#90. 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

#91. There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas A. Edison

#92. Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

Bertrand Russell

#93. I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

Jeremy Piven

#94. She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

Mitch Albom

#95. In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#96. I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

Denis Diderot

#97. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

Salman Rushdie

#98. It is no longer necessary to resort to the power of a state in order to inflict heavy losses on your enemy, since a few highly motivated individuals with even a minimum of financial resources are enough."Hostile Forces" have completely changed their appearance.

Tzvetan Todorov

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

Nietzsche Friedrich

#100. I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground
Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound.
Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death
With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath
Of discontent; or that these prayers be
For weariness of life, not love of thee.

Ben Jonson