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

— Simone Weil

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

— Thornton Wilder

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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. ↗

— George Will

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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. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#because #down #everybody #going #head

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

— Gary L. Francione

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

— Georges Duhamel

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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

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I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

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

— Joseph de Maistre

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