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• Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Children, Father, Grief

  Mary Jo Putney, Michael F. Roizen (1999). “The Wild Child”, Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

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• We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.

  Liam Neeson

  Country, Moving, Differences

  "Liam Neeson Seeks Revenge in Seraphim Falls!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. January 26, 2007.

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• Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.

  Max Scheler

  Attitude, Self, Indulge In

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• Revenge never does anyone any good. Killing the person you hate will never ease the pain. Always look forward! Follow the path of light!

  Mikage

  Pain, Hate, Light

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• Revenge produces nothing in the end. Even if you hate someone enough to kill them, you won't be saved from it. Always face forward. Walk down the path that has light.

  Mikage

  Hate, Light, Path

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• Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

  Jo Nesbo

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

  Rob Bell

  Insulting, Want, Instinct

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• I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.

  Anthony Hopkins

  People, Unhappy, Done

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• Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

  Dean Koontz

  Long, People, Justice

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Deeply Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.263, Bantam

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• It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, War, Ghetto

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• The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.60

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• We often forget that calling for peace is the most courageous act we can take. It's easy to call for revenge, to claim injustice, and to launch an attack. It's much more difficult to forgive, to call for peace, to lay down weapons.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Forgiving, Calling, Weapons

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• The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

  Morris Sullivan

  Independent, Thinking, Decision

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• There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.

  Walter Hill

  Drama, Ice, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Thinking, Fans

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a nerd!" because I think they think of the classic Revenge Of The Nerds archetype.

  Chris Hardwick

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Truth, Women

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• On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Wall, Mean

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• Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Hatred

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.55, U of Nebraska Press

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• In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Mean, Government

  Abraham Lincoln (1922). “Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Virtue, Nobility

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.191

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• Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ambition, Men, Hands

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• The wind,
  Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry,
  Came bluntly thundering, more terrible
  Than the revenge of music on bassoons.

  Wallace Stevens

  Wind, Cry, Bassoon

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.100, Vintage

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• The politics of the exile are fever,
  revenge, daydream,
  theater of the aging convalescent.
  You wait in the wings and rehearse.
  You wait and wait.

  Marge Piercy

  War, Wings, Waiting

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• The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait,
  A revenge not only necessary but right and clever--
  Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

  Donald Justice

  Art, Clever, Waiting

  Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.71, Knopf

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