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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

  Revenge, Men, Law

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• This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Want, Mercy, Instruments

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• To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hatred, Pardon, Chains

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• The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Thinking, Shells, Body

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• It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Ends

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• Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

  Martin Mull

  Painting

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• We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, War, Healing

  "Remembering 9/11: Howard Zinn on the "Old Way of Thinking" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. November 1, 2001.

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• From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

  Rose McGowan

  Empowerment, Age, Underdog

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Jun 09, 2012

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• The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

  Honore de Balzac

  Hate, Men, Hatred

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• We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him to implore peace for all the world.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, War, Hatred

  "Pope Francis Gives First Easter Sunday Message: Love, Peace and Jesus", www.foxnews.com. March 31, 2013.

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• I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Taken, Expression

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• How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'

  Julian Huxley

  Atheism, Lord, Holy

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• To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Justice, Greek, Ancient

  Sidney Sheldon (2012). “Memories of Midnight”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• When I heard the ghouls coming for you, all I cared about was reaching you in time. How often must I tell you that you mean more to me than vengeance? I can live without defeating my enemies, but I cannot live without you.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mean, Ghouls, Enemy

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• If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Easter, Sacrifice

  The Parish Newsletter of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, April 2014.

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• Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Design, Vicious, Entity

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sacrifice, Hatred, Humanity

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

  Norton Juster

  Trying, Doing You, Enthusiasm

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• After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate and misguided vengeance to send our young people to die and kill in two countries that were no threat to the USA or to our way of life. The neocons exploited patriotism to fulfill their goals of imperialism and plunder. This sort of patriotism begins when we enter kindergarten and learn the nationalist 'Pledge of Allegiance'. It transcends all sense when we are taught the 'Star Spangled Banner', a hymn to war.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Stars, War

  "Matriotism" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

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• The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.

  T. Coleman Andrews

  Pride, Men, Self

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• We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace.

  Menno Simons

  Christian, Religious, Peace

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• Imagine ... Imagine no religion.

  John Lennon

  Regret, No Regrets, Imagine

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• The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Responsibility, Civilization, Hands

  Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945

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• Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins!

  Fred Phelps

  America, Evil, Sin

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

  Neil Young

  Knows

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