Quotes with inflicted

  • All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

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  • Joseph Addison No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Seneca A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Andrew Carnegie All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Joseph De Maistre All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Sebastian Coe All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
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  • Simone Weil I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Arthur Helps It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • George Eliot It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Walter Russell Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.
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  • Abe Fortas Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Oscar Wilde One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eric Butterworth SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Wilson The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Simone Weil 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 suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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