Inflicted Quotes

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

Peace, Forgive, Easy

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

Cannot, Fame, Tongue

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

Nature, Suffering, Another

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

Legal, Oppression, Authority

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

Country, Her, Suffer

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis

Poetry, Reason, Wounds

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

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

Bad, Worst, Mankind

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

Hate, Nobody, Helpless

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

Peace, War, Today

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

Insanity, Level

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
Pervez Musharraf

Society, Lost, Doubt

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

Destiny, Fate, Create

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben

Work, Fear, Job

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

Thinking, Down, Trying

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.
Kevin Rudd

Children, Country, Suffering

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

Society, Today, Mind

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

Love, Pain, Justice

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

Consider, Property, Torture

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

Peace, Through, Made

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

Peace, War, Moral

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

Town, Wounds, Bleeding

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

Hard, Big, Heartache

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

Work, Tired, Together

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

Past, Country, Cannot

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

Fear, Wish, Might

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

Life, Story, Picture

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