Injury

"INJURY, n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight."

"Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."

"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."

"I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants … Fear implies respect."

"If we should classify one by one all those who hate others and injure others, should we find them to be universal in love or partial? Of course we should say they are partial. Now, since partiality against one another is the cause of the major calamities in the empire, then partiality is wrong."

"Will you touch, will you mend me Christ? Won't you touch, will you heal me Christ? Will you kiss, can you cure me Christ? Won't you kiss, won't you pay me Christ?"

"The privileged are often good at articulating injury but not always able to identify if they are actually experiencing it. There is a difference in being able to recognize the conditions under which injury has or is happening, and actually living, or having lived through it."

"Megan: Sometimes when people are sick or hurt for a long time, like Elijah, they're mind gets hurt too. They start to think things that aren't true. He hold me what he thought about your father. It isn't true."

"'Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom Of him gave fire to it."

"Accipere quam facere injuriam præstat."

"Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer."

"Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit."

"Aut potentior te, aut imbecillior læsit: si imbecillior, parce illi; si potentior, tibi."

"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar."