Quotes of: Inflict Keyword

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

Alan Furst

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Emile M. Cioran

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

Samantha Morton

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

Richard Griffiths

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Ludwig von Mises

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

Benjamin Tucker

To hell with passive, inflict your passion on me.

Is This Me

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

Sophocles

The wounds inflicted by a friend are faithful, but an enemy's kisses are plentiful.

Stacey Culpepper

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

Joseph Addison

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

Joseph de Maistre

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Robert Morley

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Morihei Ueshiba

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Frank Muir

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Thornton Wilder

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

William Irwin Thompson

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

Eamon de Valera

He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He should seem to be afraid of some other kind. No. He accepted and bore upon the cross a death inflicted by others, and those other His special enemies, a de...

On the Incarnation

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

Hiroshima Notes

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Georges Duhamel