Vengeance Quotes - Page 5

• ... and still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Revenge, Evil, Hatred

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  Beatrix of the Netherlands

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hope, Children, Thinking

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• Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

  N. T. Wright

  Justice, Joy, Spirituality

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• Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.

  Elsa Triolet

  Justice, Cold

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• Eyes watching always Shadows in shadows they wait A black feather falls First accepted, loved Then betrayed-spit in the face Vengeance sweet like dots.

  P. C. Cast

  Sweet, Fall, Eye

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

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• ... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

  David Gemmell

  Looks, Looking To The Future, Ifs

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• Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.

  Kobi Yamada

  Life, Too Short, Embrace

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• Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

  Aristotle

  Forgiveness, Hate, Punishment

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2947, Delphi Classics

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• If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

  Daniel Guerin

  Punishment, Disease, Crime

  Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

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• Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil.

  Brian Jacques

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Heaven, Cry, Oppression

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• Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Art, Reality, Reconciliation

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• A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Fall, Rays, Hard Words

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• For example, the insurance industries and the big banks are absolutely euphoric now - on the business pages they don't even conceal it - because they've succeeded in coming out of the crisis even stronger than they were before, and in a better position to lay the basis for the next crisis. But they don't care, because they'll get bailed out again. That's class consciousness with a vengeance.

  Noam Chomsky

  Class, Stronger, Example

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Devil, Arms, Fierce

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.78

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• Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world ... That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Forgiveness, Doe, Purpose

  St. Anselm of Canterbury “Anselm's Philosophy”, Lulu.com

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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, Revenge

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  "If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

  Philip Neri

  Forgiveness, Father, Men

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• I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Mean, Political, Ruins

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• I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.

  Rick Yancey

  Hate, Grief, Self

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Forgiveness, Peace, Honesty

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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• Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Finals, Lessons

  "Fictional character: Abbe Faria". "The Count of Monte Cristo", www.imdb.com. January 23, 2002.

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• Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

  Euripides

  Men, Feet, Wicked

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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