Inflicting Quotes
58 quotes by 55 authors
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Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes…
— Sun Tzu
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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of…
— Mark Twain
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To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and…
— Jane Goodall
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I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of…
— Robert Wagner
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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
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Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
— H. L. Mencken
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Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings…
— William L. Shirer
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out…
— Ronald Goldman
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me…
— Osama bin Laden
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have…
— St. Jerome
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As for inflicting our sorrow on other people, one does not want to go around blathering and crying all the time. But perhaps it is…
— Martha Whitmore Hickman
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They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on…
— Frederick Douglass
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I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me
— E. L. James
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's…
— Thomas More
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Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of…
— John Dear
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For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories…
— Michael Pollan
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It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that…
— Howard Barker
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Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting…
— Rick James
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