Inflict Quotations

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.

The damage done to this country by its own misconduct in the last few months and years, to its very heart and soul, is far greater and longer lasting than any damage that any terrorist could possibly inflict upon us.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

Owners sometimes think their dogs have already suffered so much that they couldn't possibly inflict any more criticism. Yet it's that very firm, effective training that would make those dogs happier and more secure.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

(Money managers) expect the Fed to stop raising rates before short-term rates inflict any significant damage to economic growth.

Signs of financial stress still are present. The persistent interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve and record high gas prices in the third quarter provided a one-two punch that continued to inflict pain on personal budgets.

Friends never hurt or inflict pain on each other.

He didn't want to inflict his problem on others,

Regardless of what people say, this is very difficult to do, to inflict mass casualties with chemical or biological weapons. One really needs large quantities.

I'm separated by other performers with whom I might be lumped, since what I say is so intensely personal. I'm anti-art and anti-poetry. As much as possible, I want to inflict my personal pain on the rest of society.

I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

I think that's part of the charm of recruiting. You can never get enough great players. It's just another way to inflict injury on your rivals. That's why recruiting is so important to some people. You're winning two times. You're getting a player and you're taking him away from somebody else.

I think you would have to say that Gov. Bush has had a rougher passage to the nomination. McCain stung him badly in New Hampshire and then came back from the South Carolina to win again in Michigan ... the kind of state that represents a battleground in a general election. Losing to McCain there really did inflict some wounds on Bush.

The army will stand cocked and ready to inflict a painful blow, if necessary, against anyone who tries to harm us,

Yahoo is a battleship. If you've ever seen a battleship, they're gigantic, and Yahoo is gigantic in the terms of consumer Internet companies. To turn a battleship takes a long time, but once you turn that battle ship the right way, it's a battleship, and it can really inflict some damage on an enemy or competition.

The question is, by the time you engage, whether you've built a battleship that can inflict punishment and maybe take a little.

The pay cut that the company is imposing on our members is significant and will inflict hardship on our members. But we welcome the additional time it provides us to secure a long-term contract with Northwest.

We are seeing more targeted attacks that profile a specific group with tailored scams designed to inflict great harm.

U.S. investment managers are bullish on large-cap growth based on what they know, what they believe and what they expect. Managers know that the economy has been resilient through some challenging times, they believe that the long-awaited swing from value to growth stocks has begun and still has some ways to go, and they expect the Fed to stop raising rates before short-term rates inflict any significant damage to economic growth.

These evil forces will not continue to inflict harm on the Iraqi people,

We should always refrain from speaking harsh words that inflict pain. Our speech should be such that it gives joy to others.

Brad crossed the line and for that he must take accountability, ... We have talked in detail and he has assured me that his actions on the play at issue were a result of over-aggressiveness and over-exuberance to block a challenging opponent and without malice. His intent was to take the player to the ground, not to inflict injury. In any case, we regret that the incident occurred and apologize to Mathias.

the things that keep him in power and enable him to inflict the kind of pain he does on his own people and others in the region.

Ryan's friends are so stricken with grief. I don't think they'd ever want to inflict that loss on another person.

This is a cruel effort to inflict even more pain on the victims of the government's long-acknowledged misbehavior. I have never seen a more blatant and transparent attempt to politicize this case in order to divide and conquer Indian country.

The attorney general recognizes that as the most severe punishment the state can inflict for a crime, capital punishment requires an extraordinary degree of comprehensive due process.

A baby sitter is someone you are supposed to trust. In my opinion this is the worst kind of betrayal one person can inflict on another.

It's pretty clear that the networks that conduct these kinds of events are harbored and supported, sustained, protected by a variety of foreign governments, ... And it's time for those governments to understand with crystal clarity that the United States of America will not tolerate that kind of support for networks that would inflict that kind of damage on the American people.

Close Australian-Singapore ties are an orthodoxy, yet such ties are not underpinned by sufficient popular consent. And Singapore is about to inflict grave damage on its reputation in this country.

They intended to lay explosives in the center of one of the Israeli towns and to inflict very heavy casualties,

It was obvious even before Katrina made landfall in Mississippi that this storm was going to inflict a monumental blow to the Gulf Coast.

It's clear that the perpetrators of the operations were three suicide bombers wearing explosive vests with metal beads to inflict maximum number of dead and injuries.

I recently came across this credit union: http://www.wrdcu.org that is affiliated with your organization. They claim to have higher interest rates than any other federal credit union. We are seeing more targeted attacks that profile a specific group with tailored scams designed to inflict great harm.

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

Anyone who saw the undercover work of the BUAV would be appalled and sickened to see the procedures we inflict on our next of kin in laboratories across the UK and in Europe,

I behave like you, moving, singing, laughing, journeying, but watch out for the blow I inflict all of a sudden, to chastise and to warn.

I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood.

How is individual transformation to be achieved? There are some bad habits among individuals such as smoking, drinking liquor, meat eating and gambling. These bad habits not only degrade the individuals but also inflict hardships on their families. These bad habits have to be given up for the individual to manifest his inherent goodness.

The low-level guys ... can inflict a lot of collateral damage.

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.