Revenge Quotes - Page 29

• One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.

  Dale Peck

  Dream, Father, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."

  Cillian Murphy

  Being Yourself, Night, Men

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.750

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• Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Ideas, Goes On, Information

  "Fictional character: Edward R. Murrow". "Good Night, and Good Luck", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hate, Coward, Intimidated

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• Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Night, Two, Justice

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• While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Race, Justice

  Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Blackwell (2008). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell”

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• Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.

  Pope John Paul II

  Life And Love, Heart, Men

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• It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Cost, Bears, Injury

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• [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

  George Will

  Writing, Giving, Envy

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• The revenge of a guilty woman is implacable.

  Edward Gibbon

  Guilty

  Edward Gibbon (1875). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.185

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• Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

  Steve Sailer

  Football, School, Player

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• The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Coal, Revolution, Envious

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Distance, Feelings, Ethics

  Hunter S. Thompson (1967). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, Ballantine Books

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• It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Real, Lying

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• Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

  Bill Peterson

  Community, Goats, Thanks

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• When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Men, Generosity, Enemy

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• Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

  Robert Hass

  Military, Taken, Engineering

  Robert Hass (2007). “Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005”, HarperCollins

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• Anger is the poorest of counselors, and revenge is suicide.

  Elizabeth Blair Lee

  Suicide, Counselor, Poorest

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• Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hate, Men, Self

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• Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Real, Writing, Character

  Joe Eszterhas (2013). “The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!”, p.124, St. Martin's Press

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• But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

  Thomas Merton

  Pride, Temptation, Serious

  Thomas Merton (1995). “Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Just a few thousand Hezbollah fighters set two countries on fire all by themselves. Don't discount what bloody mayhem and hell a few thousand armed Druze, Christians, and Sunni can do if they decide to go hunting Shia in revenge for destroying their country.

  Michael Totten

  Christian, Country, Hunting

  "Lebanon’s Premature Liberalism". www.michaeltotten.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are.

  Marco Roth

  Sibling, Climbing, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm really only capable to two emotions at this point: lust and hunger. I lost revenge a few years back, and even then, it was reserved only for ex-girlfriends and particular football games that caused me to lose a lot of money.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Football, Girlfriend, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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