#inflict

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. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #big #century #cold #cold war

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

— Sebastian Coe

#make #off #pressure #rub #self-inflicted

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

— William Irwin Thompson

#destiny #fate #inflicted #upon #will

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#cork #dangers #district #here #inflict

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#basketball #football #football player #i #inflict

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#arbitrary #chance #inflicted #nature #never

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#die #disease #inflicts #routine #usually

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inflicts #itself #mind #result #torments

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#harassment #impunity #inflict #kind #man

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#her #inflict #jests #most #nature