“Societies which inflict pain and discomfort upon their infants tend to neglect them as well.”

“We must at least allow the pain inflicted upon us by our enemies to be a megaphone to our own deafness to the world, waking us up to the needs of others, to the violence inflicted upon them.”

“Those societies which give their infants the greatest amount of physical affection were characterized by low theft, low infant physical pain, low religious activity, and negligible or absent killing, mutilating, or torturing of the enemy.”

“Mucius put his hand into the fire. It is painful to be burned; but how much more painful to inflict such suffering upon oneself!”

“An infant industry, if coddled, tends to remain an infant industry and never grows up or expands.”

“You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.”

“Infanticide and infant neglect exist in inverse ratio to the accessibility of abortion services.”

“The conscience has a long memory as does the person you inflicted pain upon to create the memory in the first place.”

“There will never be a scenario in which the infliction of fear and pain on a vulnerable individual creates a benefit to humankind.”

“Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.”