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• I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

  Gardner Dozois

  Sprung Up, Would Be, Lucky

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• Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

  Christopher Nolan

  Ideas, Interesting, Abstract

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• Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
  Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Spite, Critics

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.409

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• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Jesus, Hate

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

  Thucydides

  Adversity, Men, Law

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in these acts of revenge on others, men take it upon themselves to begin the process of repealing those general laws of humanity which are there to give a hope of salvation to all who are in distress.

  Thucydides

  Men, Law, Giving

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• Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

  Saddam Hussein

  Son, Holy Places, Rebel

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• I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.

  Thom Yorke

  School, Kids, Boys

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• God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

  Walt Whitman

  Children, Mean, Bully

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• The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

  Alfred Bester

  Dream, Frustration, Reality

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• I am not against anyone. Neither am I here to speak in terms of personal revenge against the Taliban or any other terrorist group. I am here to speak for the right of education for every child. I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Daughter, Children, Son

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Suicide, Blood, Mixing

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• To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Camouflage, Instinct

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• In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Order, Horror

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• I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, World, Hats

  "Stop me if you've heard this one before". "NME" Magazine, February 20, 1988.

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• Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

  George W. Bush

  War, Doe, Nations

  "Bush Addresses FBI". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. September 25, 2001.

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• The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain...Why do family feuds go on and on?...the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Simple

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• Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Heart, Exercise

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• After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

  Mason Cooley

  Rejection, Trying, Misery

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• Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness.

  Vidkun Quisling

  Ideas, Trends, Lawlessness

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• Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

  Sister Souljah

  Writing, Warfare, Feuds

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• Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will devour your very soul.

  James Mace

  Justice, Hatred, Soul

  James Mace (2008). “Soldier of Rome: The Legionary”, p.41, James Mace

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• You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.

  Bruce Sterling

  Horse, People, Over You

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• I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people...The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

  Albert Pierrepoint

  Responsibility, Hands, People

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

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• I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

  Agnes Obel

  Frustration, Feelings, Motivated

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

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