Inflicted Quotes
202 Inflicted quotes by 179 unique authors
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Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The…
— Simone Weil
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes…
— Marquis de Sade
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Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so…
— Kevin Rudd
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The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy…
— Unknown Author
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable,…
— Bertrand Russell
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This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were…
— Unknown Author
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A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of…
— Ramsey Clark
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The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
— Herbert Spencer
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All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
— Andrew Carnegie
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O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could…
— Patrick Henry
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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
— Joseph de Maistre
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The struggle for world domination is between me and the Jews. All else is meaningless. The Jews have inflicted two wounds on the world: Circumcision…
— Adolf Hitler
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In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said,…
— Amy Poehler
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Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live the…
— Gary Yourofsky
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Truth cannot be imparted. [] It must be inflicted.
— Brian Evenson
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The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,…
— Henry Grady Weaver
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Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what…
— Louise Bourgeois
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It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the…
— Charles Babbage
Who Wrote These Inflicted Quotes
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