Inflicting Injury Quotes & Sayings

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself. — Anthony Trollope

Stay hard, Stay hungry, Stay alive! — Bruce Springsteen

My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer- how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests ... The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce. — Robert Peel

The love of Christ for me will get last say. He is merciful to me for his name's sake, for the sake of his own goodness, for the sake of his steadfast love and compassion (Psalm 25). When he thinks about me, he remembers what he is like, and that is my exceeding joy. My indestructible hope is that he has turned his face towards me, and he will never turn away. — David A. Powlison

Non-injury to all living beings is the only religion." (first truth of Jainism) "In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves." "This is the quintessence of wisdom; not to kill anything. All breathing, existing, living sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable Law. Therefore, cease to injure living things." "All living things love their life, desire pleasure and do not like pain; they dislike any injury to themselves; everybody is desirous of life and to every being, his life is very dear."
Yogashastra (Jain Scripture) (c. 500 BCE) — Anonymous

It isn't enough that the bad guy is prevented from doing his bad deeds; he must suffer as much as possible. It is as if the existence of evil - or something that can be designated as evil - provides a safe haven for the good to engage in evil. It's a safe space to indulge in inflicting harm, to experience the sublime of suffering. — M.E. Thomas

They're all Tajiks, they have the same Koran, the same faith, but the Kulyabs kill the Pamirs, and the Pamirs kill the Kulyabs. First they'd go out into the city square, yelling, praying. I wanted to understand what was happening, so I went too. I asked one of the old men: "What are you protesting against?" They said: "Against the Parliament. They told us this was a very bad person, this Parliament. — Svetlana Alexievich

It never occurred to her to give up. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy. — Franz Grillparzer

It is precisely the presence and help of Christ in times of suffering that makes it possible for us to stand up under pressure. — R.C. Sproul

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. — J.K. Rowling

Forgive, but don't forget — Tupac Shakur

King= a man who excels in inflicting injury to others until he terrorizes everybody into submission — Bangambiki Habyarimana

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. — Morihei Ueshiba

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you.
Eli to Punchinello (p. 25) — Max Lucado

Success is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final. — Robert A. Schuller

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them! — Margaret Thatcher