Edward Moore Quotes

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.

When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Before the old wound can be healed, there is fresh blood flowing.

Freedom of Expression stops where it can do harm …. My community is humiliated, my religion is insulted. I ask for justice.

I consider your remarks highly offensive to me and to those with whom I have been working.

As a matter of fact we both are [being offensive]; and the only difference between us is that I am trying to be, and you can't help it.

An inquiry is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

There's a difference between being injured and being hurt.

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Sometimes people do get hurt

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

Fire, even if put on head, burns only.

Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls.