Injury Quotes

Women and elephants never forget an injury. (Saki)
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. View quote
Louis Brandeis
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. View quote
Alan Paton
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. View quote
Maimonides
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. (Marcus Aurelius)
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. View quote
Edward Coke
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue. View quote
Bradley Whitford
I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury. View quote
Christopher McDougall
I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder. View quote
Scott Speedman
Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions. View quote
Vic Morrow
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good. View quote
John Adams
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. View quote
Xenophon
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. (Ayn Rand)
The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another. View quote
Ayn Rand
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies. View quote
James Frazer
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. View quote
Alfred Adler