Human beings over the ages have delighted in the most horrific and fiendish methods of inflicting extreme suffering, pain and mutilation. |
The danger of these regimes is also in inflicting on multitudes the state of mass fear and, consequently, the state of psychological abnormality. |
With respect to this dispensing of pain, it is the sadist who enjoys inflicting it, and the masochist is someone who enjoys receiving pain. |
Our valiant forces were lying in wait for them, inflicting heavy losses on the covetous invaders. |
The very nature of judicial corporal punishment is that it involves one human being inflicting physical violence on another human being. |
These include the letters, written in code, which are said to make clear she was in favour of inflicting pain on her enemies. |