#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

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

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#answer #class #cliff #courage #crisis

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

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

— John Stuart Mill

#die #disease #inflicts #routine #usually

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

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

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

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#avoidance #beginning #clear #contaminate #contemplate

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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