If you have to injure someone, then make it so severe that…

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“(About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers…

— Frederick the Great

If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!

— Napoleon Hill

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

— John Zimmerman

He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.

— Publilius Syrus

If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

— Morihei Ueshiba

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

— Plato

“It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun…

— Gabrielle Giffords

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

— Publilius Syrus

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not…

— Bill O'Reilly

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects;…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned…

— Naveen Jain