Quotes on Injury

Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury...we repay your hatred with kindness.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.