People always seemed to be in awe of the infliction of pain.

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without…

— Herman Melville

There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as…

— Charles Spurgeon

Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering.…

— Simone Weil

“People who are hard on others are usually very hard on themselves, and the pain they inflict on others is a reflection of the…

— Bryant McGill

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there…

— Rosa Parks

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human…

— Robert Fisk

Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no…

— Mark Crispin Miller

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past…

— William Hazlitt

Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects…

— Elliott Smith

I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's…

— Mark Twain

... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for…

— Walter Russell

I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect.…

— Joseph Gurney Cannon

“No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will.”

— Peter Wessel Zapffe