#inflict

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#any #control #cruise #directing #doing

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. ↗

— George Eliot

#cases #climb #hatred #inflict #injuries

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#constitution #destruction #discarded #favor #form

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#certain level #i #inflicted #insanity #level

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

— Joseph de Maistre

#inflicted #justice #love #much #pain

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. ↗

— Robert Morley

#fool #i #inflict #merely #myself

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. ↗

— John Yoo

#congress #conversation #definition #go #infliction

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#death #died #humanity #indifferent #inflict

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

— Joseph Addison

#heavy #inflicted #lasting #legal #oppression

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them. ↗

— Ted Allen

#affection #always #chefs #chopped #cruelty