Quotes About Inflicted

#1. Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.

Will Rogers

#2. Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply a means to an end.

Emily Thorne

#3. The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

Voltaire

#4. When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless [ ... ] and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people

John Trudell

#5. The damage that you have inflicted heals over, and the scarred places left behind have unusual surface areas, roughnesses enough to become the nodes around which wisdom weaves its fibrils.

Nicholson Baker

#6. Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

Bertrand Russell

#7. Regret is a self-inflicted emotional scar.

Steve Maraboli

#8. You have not bought the right to a truthful answer: your truth has not bought it. Sincerity is not to be bought: it is given, if it comes at all - given or inflicted. And really, you cannot invade a man's privacy like that.

Patrick O'Brian

#9. Pessimism is a luxury of good times. In difficult times, pessimism is a self- fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.

Evelin Lindner

#10. What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer

Bertrand Russell

#11. Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough ... and then just let go of all the rest.

Duane Elgin

#12. There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics ... When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

Barack Obama

#13. When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.

Slash

#14. My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain.

Miriam Toews

#15. In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.

Heimito Von Doderer

#16. I do not think we are born with empathy. We learn it only after we have felt the hurt that we've inflicted on another.

M.D. Ireman

#17. Outside, the sun shines. Inside, there's only darkness. The blackness is hard to describe, as it's more than symptoms. It's a nothing that becomes everything there is. And what one sees is only a fraction of the trauma inflicted.

Justin Ordonez

#18. I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#19. As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Jealousy is a self-inflicted curse. Be happy for others and live curse free.

K.M. Golland

#21. If you are truly merciful, then when what is yours is unjustly taken, don't be sad inside, and do not tell of our loss to your neighbor. Let a better loss, inflicted by those who insult you, be absorbed by your mercy.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#22. Where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.

Isabel Burton

#23. Each of her soothing utterances battered me more grievously than the last - as if I were traveling in a perverse ambulance whose function was to collect a healthy man and steadily damage him in readiness for the hospital at which a final and terrible injury would be inflicted.

Joseph O'Neill

#24. The greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#25. While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

Nicholas Sparks

#26. Truth cannot be imparted. [] It must be inflicted.

Brian Evenson

#27. If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Paul Robeson

#29. Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us.

Vironika Tugaleva

#30. I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Mos Def

#31. All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph De Maistre

#32. Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Novalis

#33. Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident."
"I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

Terry Pratchett

#34. The Panama Canal,' says Abdiel Perez, 'is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth
one that nature is trying to heal.

Alan Weisman

#35. Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.

Anil Sinha

#36. Nico's anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He'd been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn't appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.

Rick Riordan

#37. Warren criticized as deplorable and unnecessary the use of arbitrarily inflicted punishments and the customary repressions of the school system; "The natural rewards and punishments of their conduct . . . I consider the only species of government that does not produce more evil than good."32

James J. Martin

#38. I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

John Mayer

#39. The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn't care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.

Jeff VanderMeer

#40. Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

Ron Fournier

#41. The wounds inflicted upon us by others help us to appreciate the joy of His love even more! EL

Evinda Lepins

#42. Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind.

Kenzaburo Oe

#43. It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable

George Eliot

#44. It is important in this journey to remember that just because someone has inflicted hurt upon us, it does not give us the right to do the same. Body shaming and hurtful tactics will never get the job done.

Zendaya

#45. We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.

Prince Philip

#46. [It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Robert Moses

#47. Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

Russel Honore

#48. I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.

Erykah Badu

#49. It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Arthur Helps

#50. When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.

Neal A. Maxwell

#51. The Trappist monk Thomas Keating once said, The cross Jesus asked you to carry is yourself. It's all the pain inflicted on you in your past and all the pain you've inflicted on others.

Brennan Manning

#52. If you cannot forgive because of hurt inflicted by others, you will be unwilling to be vulnerable for fear of being hurt again. Because people are sinners, you cannot love and you cannot minister without getting hurt.

Walter A. Henrichsen

#53. Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

David Cameron

#54. I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

Anne Frank

#55. Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#56. I will not forget this wound to our country or those who inflicted it. I will not yield; I will not rest; I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.

George W. Bush

#57. The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.

Ed Silvoso

#58. All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Sebastian Coe

#59. No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Joseph Addison

#60. One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

Eckhart Tolle

#61. To imply that domestic abuse is only inflicted against women by men is at best, ill informed, and at worst, intentionally deceptive. To acknowledge domestic violence against men does not diminish the injustices suffered by women. In fact, it gives men and women common cause to go forward together.

Mark Greene

#62. My only thrill is self inflicted hickies.

Rodney Dangerfield

#63. God only rules in the affairs of men either by the invitation of man or to save man from some self-inflicted dangers.

Sunday Adelaja

#64. He knew all about self-inflicted wounds, especially the pointless ones. They weren't all physical.

Anonymous

#65. Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

Simone Weil

#66. The word was ours now, and as long as we held on to it, we could control the hurt it inflicted.

Kody Keplinger

#67. Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from ... evidence of wounds ... wounds inflicted of mistakes ... wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.

Marcia Lynn McClure

#68. If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

Rabindranath Tagore

#69. The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

William Styron

#70. He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose.

Frank Herbert

#71. Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

Hjalmar Schacht

#72. Cagliari central defender Comunardo Niccolai became celebrated for his ability to score bizarre own goals in the 1960s, so much that self inflicted problems in general are often referred to as 'Niccolai-like'.

John Foot

#73. To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins,
All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception)
Is agony immobilized. While Time,
The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Carson McCullers

#74. A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca The Younger

#75. Eyebrows have never inflicted a moment of pain on me.

Jennifer Egan

#76. Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#77. We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

Peter Jackson

#78. And are they consistent with the injuries inflicted by the electric chair, with

Patricia Cornwell

#79. I love to read. My education is self-inflicted

Groucho Marx

#80. Torture and other forms of stress were inflicted

Aldous Huxley

#81. The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow 'felt' or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#82. When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

Ronald Reagan

#83. Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

Marc Wallice

#84. In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.

Thurston Clarke

#85. Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

Simone Weil

#86. Friendship didn't mean much if it was inflicted.

Cinda Williams Chima

#87. I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Bram Fischer

#88. The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.

Victor Hugo

#89. But again, pain hurt, no matter how it was inflicted. If Jesus could forgive Peter and everyone else who hurt and betrayed Him, she could too. "Okay, I forgive them." She meant the words. If this was what it would take to be free from the hurt, then it was worth the pain.

Kimberly Rose Johnson

#90. I'd never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we're all similarly flawed. That makes the self-inflicted wounds hurt less. I'd read Tennessee Williams. I just didn't expect to be living my own tainted little version of Suddenly Last Summer.

Dan Skinner

#91. Guns are far too accessible and too readily available. There are over 200 million guns in our society - and that's just the legal ones, the ones we know about. Every ten seconds, another gun is produced. And every fourteen minutes, some person in America dies from gun-inflicted action.

Joycelyn Elders

#92. Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

#93. Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute

Erich Heller

#94. A man or a woman can't be defined by the pain inflicted in them by others or by someone else's issues, but by their own character and actions.

Linda Alfiori

#95. If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

Michael Connelly

#96. A lot of Christians are blaming the devil for their own self-inflicted wounds.

Joyce Meyer

#97. The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Tony Blair

#98. I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

Osamu Dazai

#99. You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

Masashi Kishimoto

#100. We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf