“ The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. ”
- Thucydides- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 909
“ We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted. ”
- Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity. ”
- Lucretia Mott- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 438
“ There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ It is the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. ”
- Robert Moses- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. ”
- Cardinal Newman- Copy
- 487
“ Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 1.1K
“ And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. ”
- Erwin Schrodinger- Copy
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“ Puritanism…helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others. ”
- Marcel Ophuls- Copy
- 2.7K
“ If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. ”
- Alexandre Dumas- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language? ”
- Ernest Thompson Seton- Copy
- 753
“ All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
- 2.8K
“ All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you. ”
- Sebastian Coe- Copy
- 692
“ The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
- 2.3K
“ It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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