Revenge Quotes

• The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happy
  • Revenge
  • Intellectuals

• Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Courage
  • Injury
  • Distrust

• Hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Hate
  • Cure
  • VIrus

• Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

  

  David Anthony Durham
  • Emotion
  • Revenge
  • Manipulate

• We want revenge. We played well against them last time, and we feel like it's our turn.

  

  Chris Johnson
  • Feels
  • Lasts
  • Turns

• Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Revenge

• Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.

  

  Chris Bradford
  • Self
  • Revenge
  • Left

• Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Kind
  • Fighting
  • Spirit

• By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Done
  • Suffering
  • Accomplishment

• I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Politics
  • Revenge
  • Retribution

• 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
  • Different
  • Brother
  • Reflection

• All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Movies
  • Hours
  • Revenge

• Living well is the best revenge.

  

  George Herbert
  • Revenge

• You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Revenge
  • Plan
  • Horse's misbehavior

• 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
  • Guilty
  • Logic
  • Holocaust

• A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Suffering
  • Politics
  • Revenge

• Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Problem
  • Violence
  • Vulnerability

• Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Passion
  • Religion
  • Christ

• Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Revenge
  • My Heart
  • Tear

• Revenge is an inhuman word.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Revenge

• [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

  

  George Will
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Envy

• Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Forgiveness
  • Revenge

• In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mother
  • Fame
  • Youth

• I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

  

  George Eliot
  • Forgiveness
  • Possible
  • Revenge

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