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“The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.”

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Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.”

Ifs World Trying Problem Seems Happens Violence Possibility Produce Solve Revenge Strikes Vulnerability Injury Transfers Likelihood Strike Back

Author:Judith Butler

“Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.”

Stars Born Forget Violence Angry Revenge Fragile Retribution Lest We Forget

Author:Sting

“The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.”

Violence Hatred Revenge Chains Aggression Scorn Retribution Tempest Discord Shackles Pettiness

Author:Joe Walsh

“If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.”

Ifs Children Together Sex Violence Revenge Noise Ingredients Opera Vigorous

Author:Judith Martin

“The violence that has been going on incessantly in our community, getting worse and worse by the day, when we are slaughtering ourselves in unprecedented numbers; filled with self-hatred for each other in a spirit of retaliation and revenge. You kill my dog, I'll kill your cat, as though there are no consequences for this behavior, I have warned us about for the last three, nearly four decades telling our people we're going to have to pay a price for this.”

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Author:Louis Farrakhan

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: