Top 301 Inflict Quotes & Sayings

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

We must inflict upon terrorists and their families critical economic harm.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

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

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

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

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.

Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

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

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

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

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

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

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

I try to inflict as much damage as possible, at all costs.

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

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

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

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

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

I want to inflict some change on people.

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.

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

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

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

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

You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.

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

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

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

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

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

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

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

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public.

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

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.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

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

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

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

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

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

There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).

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

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

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

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.