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No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm. — J.V. Hart

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The crime that is latent in us we must inflict on ourselves," I say. I nod and nod, driving the message home. "Not on others," I say. — J.M. Coetzee

Satan's greatest power was not that he could inflict evil. His greatest power was to make the sons of God forget who they were. — Deepak Chopra

The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation. — Bella Forrest

Mostly I've been in the office, trying to inflict a paper cut on myself serious enough to require medical leave. — Abigail Roux

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. — Theodor Adorno

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful — Dennis Prager

That's how we're connected: through the hurt we inflict on one another. — Carsten Jensen

Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon. — Thiruvalluvar

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other. — Belinda Jeffrey

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end. — Taylor Caldwell

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. — Luc De Clapiers

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. — Robert Morley

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others — Jacqueline Carey

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. — Denis Diderot

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself. — Publilius Syrus

Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies. — Greg Cox

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict. — Eamon De Valera

Thoughts have the power,
To change how you perceive the world around you,
To inflict worry, or make peace abound too. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. — Chuck Palahniuk

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved. — Mitch Albom

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. — Jim Morrison

keep in mind that even those who love you can unknowningly inflict pain when they themselves are hurting — Sarah Dosher

if we harm our neighbors, we also inflict damage on ourselves. There — Karen Armstrong

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning. — Kedar Joshi

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience. — Richard Griffiths

We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves. — Bryant McGill

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives. — Bob Dylan

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us. — Danielle Steel

If he hurts you again, so help me God, I will personally inflict him with severe bodily harm. — Lauren Conrad

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous. — Steven Pinker

These days, we take pride in being tough enough to inflict pain on others. — Tony Judt

A book should open old wounds, even inflict new ones. A book should be a danger. — Emil Cioran

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction — Dalai Lama XIV

Sorry, ladies. I guess that's our cue. We like to storm into town, inflict maximum damage, and then disappear ... like a KISS concert. — Brian K. Vaughan

I don't work. I merely inflict myself on the public. — Robert Morley

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system. — John Fund

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. — Paul Valery

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others. — Edward Glaeser

What is she to me? Except a menace - a danger you've chosen to inflict on all of us. — Stephenie Meyer

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful. — Frans De Waal

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both. — Bertrand Russell

We can't be impatient with him," I said. "We can't inflict our desperation on him. — M. Pierce

I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict. — Chuck Palahniuk

It's very crucial that you get your feelings out- but don't ever inflict harm on your body because your body is sacred — Demi Lovato

It is not other people who inflict the worst disappointments, but the shock between reality and the extravagance of our imagination. — Helene Gremillon

More than anything, The One True God was a potent weapon used by sexually repressed members of society to inflict misery on everyone else. — Jarett Kobek

Words can be arrows that inflict wounds. They can also be bandages that heal. — Toni Sorenson

Revenge is as the tigers spring,
Deadly, and quick, and crushing; yet, as real
Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel. — George Gordon Byron

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others. — William Lloyd Garrison

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it. — Alice Childress

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty? — Catherine The Great

It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will conquer. — Terence MacSwiney

When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops. — Joyce Rachelle

The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all. — Sophocles

The only effect of the words of powerless people on the Internet was to inflict misery on other powerless people. — Jarett Kobek

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. — Herman Melville

The truth is only dangerous if it can inflict injury. — Morgan Rhodes

Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy. — Dean Koontz

Before hurting others, feel the pain you will inflict on others. — Debasish Mridha

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited. — Orson Scott Card

The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many. — Bob Ainsworth

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man. — Howard Cosell

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside. — Sam Lipsyte

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict. — Mitch Albom

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. — Sammy Davis Jr.

I don't inflict horrors on readers. — Alan Furst

Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I behave like you, moving, singing, laughing, journeying, but watch out for the blow I inflict all of a sudden, to chastise and to warn. — Sathya Sai Baba

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy

Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. "Why — Mark Lawrence

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them. — Troy Soos

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm. — Barack Obama

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. — Shaquille O'Neal

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all. — Sophocles

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world. — Michael Arndt

It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness. — Frank Herbert

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most. — CrimethInc.

When men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes. — James A. Michener

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people. — Robert M. Pirsig

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples. — Tertullian

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution. — Annie Besant

Even the smallest of groups could inflict damage. — Sara Raasch

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict. — Paul Bins, Comte De Saint-Victor

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. — Thornton Wilder

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man. — Cesare Pavese

He had to live out the entirety of his life as Dalton Prestwick. It was really a worse fate than anything Tom could inflict on him. — S.J. Kincaid

Some people run from pain their whole lives, and what pain they do not digest they inflict upon others. — Bryant McGill

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others? — Ramana Maharshi

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. — Curtis Sittenfeld

It would take an architect who could hate enough to feel enough to love enough to perpetrate the kind of special cruelty only real lovers can inflict. — David Foster Wallace

Wounded can inflict the most painful wounds without hesitation. — Bella Forrest

One writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. — Elena Ferrante

If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments — Howard Zehr

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love. — Jordan Belfort

To hell with passive, inflict your passion on me. — H.A. Kotys

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense. — Percy Bysshe Shelley