Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way
Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.
I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.
According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.
We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.
There can be no law of nature, no science, No aberrant infliction of human will That unchained the soul cannot conquer, Simply sweep away, should it chose to.
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.
Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.
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.
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.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.
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.
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
Has it tortured you as much as it's tortured me?" He asked. "Don't call it torture when it's self-inflicted. You always have a choice.
