Quotes of: Inflict Keyword

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

Tony Kushner

The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

Oedipus the King

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Abe Fortas

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

Denis Diderot

Lydia Brenner: [reacting to Melanie's bird-inflicted wounds] Yes, of course, bandages! It's terrible!

The Birds

Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

Albus Dumbledore - J.K. Rowling

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.

A Shade of Blood

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Sceptical Essays

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

Shaquille O'Neal

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Ludwig von Mises

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

Mos Def

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

Oedipus the King

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

Tommy Franks

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Luc de Clapiers

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

George Will

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

Taylor Caldwell

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

John Mayer

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

David Brooks

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Jonathan Franzen