Injury Quotes

Public utility is often served by the injury of individuals.

Jean Louis Guez de Balzac

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented.

Unknown

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Andrew Johnson

It is not violence that best overcomes hate nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Charlotte Bront

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Cato the Censor

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Alan Paton

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Daniel Webster

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Frances Wright

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

Alexander III

To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

MORIHEI UESHIBA

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

Thomas Jefferson

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Steve Perry
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