#inflict

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#been #countries #deliberately #designed #fled

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days. ↗

— John Mayer

#accidents #days #head #i #mistakes

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#endure #ever #evils #governments #had

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#art #control #inflicting #injure #injury

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

— Jim Morrison

#else #fear #feelings #inflict #less

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

#grin #humor #inflicting #jokes #masculine

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#definition #gentleman #inflicts #never #pain

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#definition #gentleman #inflicts #never #pain

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#celebrate #closer #exact #fact #fascinated

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 we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#circle #consideration #eager #extend #factory