Taking Revenge Quotes

• I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are.

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  Marco Roth

  Revenge   Sibling   Climbing  

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.

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  Epictetus

  Forgiveness   Revenge   Grace  

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• The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

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  A. B. Yehoshua

  Suicide   Revenge   Blood  

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• Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

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  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Forgiveness   Revenge   Savages  

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• The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.

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  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Revenge   War   Joining  

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

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  Charlotte Lennox

  Forgiveness   Revenge   Enemy  

  Mrs.charlotte lennox. (1762). “Sophia”, p.139

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• Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

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  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge   Men   Hustle  

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• In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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  Francis Bacon

  Forgiveness   Revenge   Anger  

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

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  Pierre Corneille

  Life And Love   Revenge   Hatred  

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• If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.

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  Gaspar Noe

  Revenge   Fighting   Trying  

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

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  Jo Nesbo

  Revenge   Animal   Men  

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• 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.

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  George Eliot

  Giving Up   Revenge   Mean  

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.403, George Eliot

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