Inflicted Quotes

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

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

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

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

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.