Quotes About Inflicted

They were weary of the chaos inflicted by the Roman-Persian wars and longed for the peace that only an autocratic empire seemed able to provide.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

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.

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

My only thrill is self inflicted hickies.

Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.

When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated, when the family you came from is denounced and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive, savage, you come to see yourself as less than human. That is hell on earth, that sense of unworthiness. That's what they inflicted on us.

torture and other forms of stress were inflicted

Contrary to her father's predictions, Ida inflicted far more damage on Standard Oil than she received in return.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those who witnessed the misery inflicted on so many during the 1930s.

There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilized and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.

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

Hurt inflicted, if lesse than the benefit of transgressing, is not punishment... and is rather the Price, or Redemption, than the Punishment of a Crime.

In a sixty-page report released in June 1938, Smythe concluded that the 120 air raids that Nanking experienced and the four-day siege of the city did only 1 percent of the damage inflicted by the Japanese army after it entered Nanking.

The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura.

They had an enemy. They were an enemy. The world was carnage. You either suffered it or inflicted it.

Terrorism, he said is 'a reaction to the injustice in the region's domestic politics, inflicted in large part by the US.

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

No, that night, words were his weapon of choice. And they had inflicted far deeper wounds than his fists would in the months that followed.

Gone is the pain that you inflicted on me - I CAN live with out you and your agony.

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

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.