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• The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Fleeting, Affliction, Emotion

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• I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have problems with our Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does that end? If a man in one family is killed or hurt by another man, revenge must be exacted to restore nang (honor).

  Malala Yousafzai

  Hurt, Powerful, Mistake

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• It appears to be a case of revenge run amok.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Running, Cases

  "CIA LEAK PROBE: LIBBY INDICTED / Reaction on Capitol Hill split by party" by Carl Hulse, www.sfgate.com. October 29, 2005.

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• Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Criticism, Critics

  "Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays".

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• There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Tragedy, Three, Stories

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• To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Punishment, Justice, Death Penalty

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• Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

  Euripides

  Guilt, Death Penalty, Murder

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.203, University of Chicago Press

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• It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.

  Albert Pierrepoint

  Believe, Views, Punishment

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• Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

  Louis Gustave Vapereau

  Marriage, Charity, Bachelors

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• The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Punishment, Finals

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• Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

  Neil Kinnock

  Desire, Toxins, Resentment

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• How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . . . . If one nation maintains constantly a disciplined army, ready for service of ambition or revenge, it obliges the most pacific nations who may be within the reach of its enterprises to take corresponding precautions.

  James Madison

  War, Ambition, Mean

  "Federalist No. 41. General View of the Powers Conferred by the Constitution" by James Madison, www.congress.gov.

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• Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

  Iris Murdoch

  Hurt, Vanity, People

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “The Philosopher's Pupil”, p.81, Random House

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• What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Life, Success

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• Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.

  Janet Morris

  War, Sleep, Battle

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.186, Paradise Publishing

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• Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Grateful, Power, People

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• I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

  Hayden Christensen

  Men, Giving, Acting

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• The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Girl, Years, Ideas

  "Hailee Steinfeld: For A Young Actress, A Gritty Debut". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. December 17, 2010.

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• I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

  Lana Parrilla

  Horror Stories, Games, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I saw Madeleine Stowe from Revenge recently, and she totally blew me away. And growing up I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.

  Sarah Shahi

  Dream, Growing Up, Two

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• Dancing well is the best revenge

  Allegra Kent

  Dancing, Best Revenge, Wells

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• Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

  Nick Wechsler

  Stories, Redemption, Futility

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• I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through. My rule is to hold your head high and never stop looking that person in the eye, because they know and you know, and you're still the professional. And they can just feel like an ass for the rest of their lives. That's my favorite thing to do.

  Sophia Bush

  Eye, Thinking, Favorites Things

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

  John Waters

  School, Thinking, Catholic

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• I was indeed a snob, if you agree with this definition: 'A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.' I do believe that. Not superior to all other people, but to some, most probably including those who think Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is a great film. That is not simply ego on my part. It is a faith that after writing and teaching about films for more than 40 years, my tastes are more evolved than those of a fanboy.

  Roger Ebert

  Believe, Teaching, Writing

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