Revenge Quotes - Page 16

• Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

  Peter McWilliams

  Hands, Needs, May

  Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• I wear Sweet Revenge, the legging boots, a lot particularly in the winter.

  Tamara Mellon

  Sweet, Winter, Boots

  Source: www.elle.com

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• [Donald Trump] is already in revenge mode.

  Michelle Goldberg

  Trump

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• Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

  Jay Roach

  War, Modern, Tales

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. It was definitely tapping into the Dr. Strangelove vibe, which is one of my three top favorite films or all time.

  Jay Roach

  War, Believe, Self

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will get a beast whose only concern is to seek his revenge in the best way possible.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Rights, Long, Passionate

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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• I would have to take some kind of revenge if my girlfriend had been aggressed, my mother had been aggressed, or my kids had been aggressed. I think I would go for personal revenge.

  Gaspar Noe

  Mother, Girlfriend, Kids

  "Living Is a Selfish Act: An Interview with Gaspar Noe". "Post Script" Interview with Mitch Davis, June 22, 2002.

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• My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.

  Gaspar Noe

  Father, Forgiving, Forget

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• If you sue somebody it takes two years, three years, and your anger just gets lost in between. And even if you win or lose the trial, it takes such a long time. If you want to really take a personal revenge, you'd better do it by yourself and at the right time.

  Gaspar Noe

  Winning, Years, Two

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.

  Gaspar Noe

  Fighting, Trying, Opponents

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• I feel that success is the best revenge in this world.

  Chamillionaire

  World, Feels, Best Revenge

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Had Enough, Equilibrium

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

  Desmond Tutu

  Way, Heal, Knows

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.

  Judith Butler

  War, Thinking, Justice

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

  Judith Butler

  Asking, Actors, Hopeless

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Father, Voice, Wanted

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's a difference between what I call a dumb ghost and a smart ghost. The smart ghost is Hamlet's father - you know, he says, "Get revenge, my son!" That's incredibly rare. It's much more the grey lady in the same place everyday, moving across the floor.

  Peter James

  Smart, Father, Moving

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can exchange revenge, you can exchange murders.

  Margaret Atwood

  Debt, Deeds, Owing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge. Your mother has died in the hospital, and the first thought a lot of people have is, I'll sue the doctor. You feel helpless, and you think, I'm less helpless if I'm doing something active that makes someone else pay. And social media make it easy to inflict all kinds of pain on other people. But what good does it do?

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Mother, Pain, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

  C.E. Morgan

  Pain, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• 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.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Dog, Cat, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Early on in my career I got a part in Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise. If I hadn't done that I wouldn't have met Tim Busfield and if I hadn't met Tim Busfield, I wouldn't have met Aaron Sorkin. So Nerds II took me straight to the White House!

  Bradley Whitford

  House, Nerd, Done

  "The Definitive History Of The West Wing" by James Dyer, www.empireonline.com.

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• Short attention span is the new avant-garde. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry. David Markson feels particularly relevant now. Twitter is the revenge of modernism.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Complaining, Attention, Reason

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Elegant revenge is great. The perfect revenge that lets people see who they actually are for a moment.

  Patrick Somerville

  People, Perfect, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone ever asks about is the persecution. It may well be that's the last thing in the world they want to talk about. There were many years in which every journalist in the world wanted to talk to me, but nobody wanted to talk to me about my work. That felt deeply frustrating because I felt there was an attempt to stifle me as an artist. The best revenge I could have was to write.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Artist, Feelings

  Source: pen.org

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