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

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Gary L. Francione

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.
Hjalmar Schacht

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
Pierre Laval

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

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
Simone Weil

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
Jonathan Franzen

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

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis

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

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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