Afflict
To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.
To make low or humble.
Afflicted.
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Afflict Quotations
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Blaise Pascal
In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold S. Geneen
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Afflict Translations
afflict in Dutch is beproeven, bedroeven, verdriet doen
afflict in Italian is infestare
afflict in Latin is contristo, adficio, ingravo
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