Injury Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Concerning this, it should be noted that men must be either caressed or wiped out; because they will avenge minor injuries, but cannot do…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance

— Steve Perry

“Men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver. Wherefore the injury we do…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions…

— Simone Weil

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

— Thomas Fuller

By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we…

— Wallace Stegner

There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath…

— Lajos Kossuth

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and…

— Michel de Montaigne