Vengeance Quotes - Page 9

• There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Men, Clouds

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.63, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or exploit the folks, everyday Americans. Never before in the United States had a television news guy dared to criticize other journalists on a regular basis. The late Peter Jennings, a friend, told me I was crazy to do it. "These people will not allow anyone to scrutinize them," he said. "They will come after you with a vengeance." And so they have.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Crazy, Simple, Media

  Bill O'Reilly (2006). “Culture Warrior”, p.3, Three Rivers Press

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• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

  Aleister Crowley

  Integrity, Ambition, Principles

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• I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Bible, God, Book

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• Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Segregation, Public Education, Racial Segregation

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• Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Evil, Darkness, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books

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• Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

  Benjamin Spock

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  Tacitus

  Best Friend, Worst Enemy, History

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• Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

  Starhawk

  Compassion, Punishment, Quality

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• It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

  Dalai Lama

  Cheating, Prayer, Helping Others

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.103, Penguin Books India

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• Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.

  Amos Elon

  Cities, Giving, Atheism

  Amos Elon (1995). “Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory”, Kodansha Globe

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• Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

  Michael Moorcock

  Taken, Destiny, Challenges

  "Phoenix in Obsidian". Book by Michael Moorcock, 1970.

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• Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Compassion, Empathy

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

  Mark Twain

  God, Hands, Reserves

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

  Janet Morris

  Cities, Doom

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.240, Paradise Publishing

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• I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.

  Brian London

  Encouragement, Father, Army

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?" I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Hands, Doe, Woods

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• Die Hard With A Vengeance shooting was a great time, because we had an interesting script. The first script was called Simon Says, and something was going on, because some days we'd get to work, but we wouldn't actually have dialogue. We would go to Bruce's Willis trailer, and they'd say, "Okay, you have to go from 168th Street to 97th Street today. We're going to do it in the cab, and Sam, you say this. Bruce, what do you want to say?" And that's how Bruce's "hey, Zeus!" thing came up.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Interesting, Today, Zeus

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• October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dream, Strong

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Evil, Religion

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.221

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• When the fire is over, always, in the ashes, our opportunities to repair, to move forward without vengeance being required - that's kind of the way us humans seem to live. We make massive mistakes. We do stupid things. We do things to survive. And then there's an opportunity to learn from them and move forward with grace. And forgiveness and that gracefulness are very connected.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mistake, Stupid, Moving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't think vengeance is much good.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Karma, Law, Medicine

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• There are similiarities between Nixon and Trump, no question. But there are also big differences. Nixon was shy, private, he attacked the media behind closed doors and insulted people behind their backs, and we only know about it because of the taping system in the Oval Office. The dark side, the vengeance we only know because of these tapes. Trump is right out and front with it. He actually campaigned on how nasty he can be, which found resonance with enough voters to get him into the White House.

  John Dean

  Dark, People, Office

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.

  Pope John Paul II

  Names, Hatred, Messages

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