Inflicted Quotes

202 quotes by 184 authors

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
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… — Tony Blair
Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the… — David Cameron
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… — Lucretia Mott
Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted. — William J. Clinton
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
When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it… — Susan Boyle
That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory. — Ovid
When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing — Jay McInerney
I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. — Walter Russell
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun:… — Frederic Bastiat
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the… — Thomas Jefferson
Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the… — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. — Bill Veeck
[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death;… — Rudolph Rummel
A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of… — Aeschines
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional… — Daniel D. Polsby
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good… — Oscar Wilde

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