Vengeance Quotes - Page 2

• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

  Josh Billings

  Forgiveness, Revenge, No Revenge

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• One good act of vengeance deserves another.

  John Jefferson

  Revenge, Competition, Conflict

  "Zinda", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Revenge is a meal best served cold.

  Denzel Washington

  Revenge, Meals, Cold

  "Fictional character: Creasy". "Man on Fire", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Without forgiveness, there is no future.

  Desmond Tutu

  Change For The Better

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Dr. Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

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• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Tired, Blood

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• Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Government, World

  "The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940".

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• Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Sweet, Taken, Stills

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do not care where you lay your head or who with, my vengeance shall rain upon you until you drown.” That last word was drawn out, until its syllable was lost in more growling. Dead silence. Until Doc Jane said dryly, “Annnnd this is why they say the female of the species is more dangerous than the male.

  J.R. Ward

  Rain, Sleep, Silence

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• To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

  Criss Jami

  Greatness, Righteous

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.102, Criss Jami

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• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Done, Retribution

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'" by Eric Hoffer, The New York Times Magazine (p. 57), April 25, 1971.

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• When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

  Chuck Jones

  Justice, Judgment, Critics

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• Never get vengeance and justice mixed up.

  Robert Spencer

  Justice

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• Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hatred, Charity, Moral

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• If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Needs

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• The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

  Steve Perry

  Fear, Men, Needs

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

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• Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Men, Political

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• My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.

  Stewart Francis

  Preoccupation, Therapists

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• There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don't see any reason why it should be different now.

  Zacky Vengeance

  Different, World, Reason Why

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• This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Idle Chatter, Tides, Affair

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.262, Chronicle Books

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• Vengeance is without foresight.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Foresight

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• I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Love, Atheist, Book

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• A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.

  John Legend

  Family Love, Different, Looks

  "One Quote Sums Up Why John Legend Is the Voice for Justice Music Desperately Needs" by Kate Beaudoin, mic.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

  Walter Scott

  Revenge, Thinking, Flames

  Sir Walter Scott (1857). “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field”, p.269

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• The best revenge is massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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