Inflicting Pain

Famous quotes containing the words inflicting pain, inflicting and/or pain:

“Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”
—Frank Muir (b. 1920)

“Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were the occasion for both their pain and their power.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)