War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.
Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
