Revenge Quotes - Page 33

• The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

  Molly Haskell

  Democracy, Internet

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• The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, Ghetto, Fighting

  "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History". Book edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda Reinharz, p. 675, letter to Yitzhak Cukierman (April 23, 1943), 1995.

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• That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

  Joe Royle

  Retribution, Getting Revenge

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• We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Dream, Writing, Reality

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• The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

  C. L. R. James

  Passion, Poverty, Privilege

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• Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

  Pierre Charron

  Children, Fire, Despair

  "Treasury of Thought: Forming an encyclopædia of quotation from ancient and modern authors". Book edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 123, 1894.

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• Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

  Alain de Botton

  Intelligent, True Evil, People

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2012

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• The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Lying, Book, Age

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

  Vincent Price

  Fate, Men, Play

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Long, May, Good Times

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

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• The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty

  Thomas Paine

  Animal, Men, Moral Goodness

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.246, Ravenio Books

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• What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forgiveness, Ideas, Forgiving

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• Sometimes people hurt us unintentionally. We may view that they've hurt us intentionally and want revenge. But sometimes when we really look back again, we can see that they weren't intentional in trying to hurt us. That's when we need to confess our judgment of them and forgive them for their unintentional hurts committed against us.

  Cindy Wright

  Hurt, Views, People

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• Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Forgiveness, Punishment, Criminals

  Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

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• Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.

  Emile Gaboriau

  Fruit

  Emile Gaboriau (1899). “File”

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• I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

  Steven Moffat

  Kids, Thinking, Class

  "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Running, War, Government

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• It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

  Julian Clary

  Motivational, Stills, Pathetic

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• They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street
  Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep
  If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet
  Because I'm scum
  And I'm your son
  I come undone

  Robbie Williams

  Song, Sweet, Hurt

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• The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism. If Germans who were not even born before 1945 must pay reparations to the State of Israel, which did not exist until 1948, then you can be included in the Zionist racket of reparations and revenge.

  Ernst Zundel

  Israel, Holocaust, Groups

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• Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Leadership, Sweet, Women

  Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1974). “Toward a recognition of androgyny”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

  Frank Herbert

  Justice, Pendulums, Claims

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.1, Macmillan

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• Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -

  Sonya Hartnett

  Brother, Reflection, Blood

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift.

  Craig Silvey

  Sorry, Heart, Mean

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• Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

  Jonas Jonasson

  Good Things, Worst, One Thing

  Jonas Jonasson (2012). “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared”, p.59, Hachette UK

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