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  • For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance

    Long   Fans   Records  
  • People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

  • Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect — resembles more or less its original — in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed.

    God   Character   Perfect  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.270
  • I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

    Husband   Father   Tired  
    Letter to James E. Yeatman on May 21, 1865. "Sherman: Merchant of Terror, Advocate of Peace". Book by Charles Edmund Vetter, p. 289, 1992.
  • Without forgiveness, there is no future.

    "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Dr. Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.
  • If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

    Fire   Law   Broken  
  • From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

    FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Jun 09, 2012
  • Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

    Sir Walter Scott (1857). “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field”, p.269
  • An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

  • Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.

    Crazy   Sharks   Evil  
    Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble”, p.111, Random House
  • It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

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

  • We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace.

  • A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

    'Essays' (1625) 'Of Revenge'
  • To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

    Bed   World   Vengeance  
    Joseph Stalin (1940). “Stalin's kampf: Joseph Stalin's credo”
  • System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

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

    Fear   Men   Needs  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

    Revenge   Heart   Blood  
    1592 Aaron toTamora.Titus Andronicus, act 2, sc.3, l.38-9.
  • Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

    Grief   Lazy   Vengeance  
  • 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.

    Heaven   Vengeance   Cry  
  • Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you get to control things, if only on the page. You get to run the show. You can right wrongs, bring departed loved ones back to life, even take vengeance on God, if that's your thing.

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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 Gustav Jung (1958). “Psyche and symbol: a selection from the writings of C. G. Jung”, Anchor Books
  • What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

    War   Army   Cities  
  • False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

    Truth   Attitude   Lying  
    Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

    Rae Foley (1961). “It's Murder, Mr. Potter”
  • Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

    Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.35, Penguin
  • When I heard the ghouls coming for you, all I cared about was reaching you in time. How often must I tell you that you mean more to me than vengeance? I can live without defeating my enemies, but I cannot live without you.

    Mean   Ghouls   Enemy  
  • We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past -- whether he admits it or not -- can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.

    Believe   Past   Order  
    Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.18, A&C Black
  • The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

    Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.29, New Directions Publishing
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