#inflicted

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

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. ↗

— Pervez Musharraf

#dead #doubt #families #greater #i

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

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#self-inflicted #wounds

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

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

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

#get together #got #i #inflict #inflicted

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#always #appeared #cannot #done #express

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

— William Irwin Thompson

#destiny #fate #inflicted #upon #will