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“The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain...Why do family feuds go on and on?...the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.”

People Want Two Reason Problem Pain Courses Simple Goes On Forgiveness Revenge Scales Reactions Chains Ties Score Fairness Vengeance Injured Feuds Escalators Chain Reactions Family Feud

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.”

Heart Might Christian Three Christianity Enemy Exercise Revenge Lust Temptation Conquer Satan Destroying Temper Temperance Puritan Presbyterians

Author:John Flavel

“After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.”

Trying Wells Misery Revenge Rejection Elsewhere Oh Well

Author:Mason Cooley

“Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness.”

Ideas Individual Responsible Revenge Trends Persecution Handicaps Lawlessness

Author:Vidkun Quisling

“Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.”

Writing Revenge Brilliant Warfare Gang Feuds Family Feud

Author:Sister Souljah

“There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.”

Justice Ears Court Revenge Law And Justice Law Courts

Author:Clarence Darrow

“Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will devour your very soul.”

Soul Remember Justice Hatred Revenge Noble

Book:Soldier of Rome: The Legionary

Source: Soldier of Rome: The Legionary

“You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.”

People Way Should May Made Culture Realizing Forget Half Hell Written Horse Aim Revenge Artistic Pet Significance Over You Civilized Never Forget Geek Half Way

Author:Bruce Sterling

“I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people...The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.”

People Way Should Hands Wanted Desire Easy Responsibility Trouble Solve Revenge Conclusion Execution Primitive Penalties Death Penalty Easy Way Relics

Author:Albert Pierrepoint

“I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.”

Feelings Revenge Frustration Motivated Exacting Revenge

Author:Agnes Obel

“The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.”

Democracy Internet Revenge

Author:Molly Haskell

“Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.”

Wells Heart Stills Hands Enemy Revenge Live Well Best Revenge

Author:Michael O'Donoghue

“The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.”

Men Has Beens Self Facts Dream Reality Fighting Battle Revenge Defense Resistance Witness Heroic Magnificent Ghetto Risen Self Defense

Author:Mordechai Anielewicz

“That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.”

Revenge Retribution Getting Revenge

Author:Joe Royle

“We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.”

Writing Dream Reality Revenge Lives Of Others

Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”

Passion Poverty Aim Property Injustice Privilege Revenge Cruelty Oppression Momentary Perpetuating

Author:C. L. R. James

“Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.”

Children Turns Grows Fire Despair Madness Angry Revenge Misfortunes Executioners

Author:Pierre Charron

“Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.”

People Knows Evil Intelligent Revenge Focused Access Journalism True Evil

Author:Alain de Botton

“The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.”

Book Moments Age Lying Rooms Company Presses Finals Revenge Contemporary Immense Shelves Unnoticed Great Book Vogue Auctions

Book:My Study Fire

Source: My Study Fire

“I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.”

Men Play Fate Revenge Monsters

Author:Vincent Price

“The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty”

Men Animal Moral Creation Duty Creatures Goodness Revenge Cruelty Vegetarian Persecution Violation Animal Cruelty Imitating Moral Duty Beneficence Moral Goodness

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.”

Humans Ideas Forgiveness Forgiving Misery Revenge Endless Chains Antidote Amen Poisonous

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Sometimes people hurt us unintentionally. We may view that they've hurt us intentionally and want revenge. But sometimes when we really look back again, we can see that they weren't intentional in trying to hurt us. That's when we need to confess our judgment of them and forgive them for their unintentional hurts committed against us.”

People Want Needs Trying Looks May Sometimes Hurt Views Judgment Forgiving Committed Revenge Bitterness Back Again

Author:Cindy Wright

“O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip Hath virgined it e'er since.”

Long Heaven Sweet Kissing Lips Dear Revenge Thee Queens Jealous Exile

Author:William Shakespeare

“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.”

Crime Forgiveness Revenge Criminals Punishment Reform Reformation

Author:Elizabeth Fry

“An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”

Inspirational Eye Blind Revenge Whole World Right Thing Blindness Blinded Peace And Justice Best Revenge Kings And Love Blind Eyes Eye For An Eye

Book:Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.”

Fruit Revenge

Book:File

Source: File

“I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.”

People Thinking Kids Bits Class Honest Revenge Being Honest Attractive Really Cool Exacting Revenge

Author:Steven Moffat

“A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.”

Ideas War Reason Government Running Political Social Clothes Seasons Instruments Intellect Revenge Contemporary Superiors Thrive Smooth Arbitrary Explicit Utilitarian

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.”

Stills Motivational Motivation Revenge Pathetic

Author:Julian Clary

“They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet Because I'm scum And I'm your son I come undone”

Ifs Song Hurt Streets Son Sweet Praying Mirrors Revenge Selling Blades Undone Razors Your Son Scum

Author:Robbie Williams

“The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who were not even born before 1945 must pay reparations to the State of Israel, which did not exist until 1948, then you can be included in the Zionist racket of reparations and revenge.”

Ifs States Facts Certain Born Pay Groups Logic Mere Israel Revenge Guilty Holocaust Twisted Zionist Zionism Racket Reparations Ethnic Groups

Author:Ernst Zundel

“Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.”

Men World Certain Women Leadership Sweet Ought Intelligent Praise Hot Shame Revenge Sensitive Folly Trusted Be A Man Adjectives Ardent Erudite Epithet Androgynous

Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny

Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny

“Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion”

Justice Claims Injustice Revenge Bloody Inexorable Pendulums

Book:The Dosadi Experiment

Source: The Dosadi Experiment

“It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.”

Thinking Would Be Film Loss Deals Wife Modern Revenge Traditional Dirty Nasty Naughty Flattering Diesel Exacting Revenge Vigilante

Author:Vin Diesel

“Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -”

Needs Different Done Asks Blood Brother Reflection Yeah Revenge Punishment Ask Me Twins Blood Brothers

Book:Surrender

Source: Surrender

“Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift.”

Heart Mean Embrace Sorry Revenge Bridges Settling Gaps Offering Sacraments Ridicule Metronomes

Author:Craig Silvey

“For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving-girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.”

Persons Girl Morning Inspire Healthy Wake Up Revenge Waking Adulthood Bedroom Gorgeous Belts Best Revenge Turquoise

Author:Beth Ditto

“Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.”

One Thing Worst Good Things Revenge

Book:The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Source: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

“A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.”

Has Beens Said I Can Revenge Horrible Unfair Untrue Best Revenge

Author:Kate Moss

“When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.”

Two Revenge Graves

Author:Christopher Eccleston

“My mother always said democracy is the best revenge.”

Said Mother Democracy Revenge Best Revenge

Author:Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

“I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.”

Has Beens I Can Mother Democracy Revenge Vain Best Revenge

Author:Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

“I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.”

Men Way Two Desire Found Treats Revenge Resentment Two Ways

Book:Corvus

Source: Corvus

“The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.”

Eye Sex Revenge Shantaram Best Revenge

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Silence is the tortured man's revenge.”

Men Silence Revenge Silence Is Shantaram

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.”

Heart Voice Fiction Responsibility Written Majors Revenge Suspense Twelve Examination Astonishing Thrillers Stunning Debut Heart Pounding

Author:Jeff Abbott

“When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.”

Source: The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers

“We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.”

Mind Might Compassion Enemy Revenge Best Revenge Exacting Revenge Mercy And Compassion

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''”

World Art Order Shadow Intellect Revenge Interpretation Literary Criticism

Author:Susan Sontag

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