Revenge Quotes
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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.
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In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
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In reality, all those guys are gone, so you can't say it's revenge. It's a completely new team.
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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.
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My whole career has been an act of revenge.
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Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
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All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.
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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
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I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.
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He felt like the last bullet in a gun meant for revenge, sealed with a kiss.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice?
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.
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Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
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Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.
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Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.
