quotes about Vengeance
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I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
-- Anne Rice -
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
-- Beth Ditto -
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.
-- Bong Joon-hoSource : "Interview: The Host & Mother Writer/Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 15, 2010.
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The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.
-- Bridget of Sweden -
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
-- Charles Darwin -
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Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
-- Charles Simmons -
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
-- Chuck Jones -
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
-- Coretta Scott King -
To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
-- Criss Jami -
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If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
-- Daniel GuerinSource : Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr
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If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
-- Denise MorrisonSource : "On Being Your Own CEO" by Nell Merlino, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 08, 2012.
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While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.
-- Elsa Triolet -
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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.
-- Eva Gabrielsson -
Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
-- Faith PopcornSource : Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.104, BookBaby
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Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.
-- Francine du Plessix Gray -
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Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins!
-- Fred PhelpsSource : "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.
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Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
-- Gary D. SchmidtSource : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
-- James A. Garfield -
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And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.
-- Janet Morris -
The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
-- Janet Morris -
Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.
-- Janet Reno -
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated
-- Johann Georg Hamann -
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One good act of vengeance deserves another.
-- John JeffersonSource : "Zinda", www.imdb.com. 2006.
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Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
-- Jonathan Kozol -
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings -
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
-- Julian Huxley -
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creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.
-- Marjorie Benton Cooke -
Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.
-- Martin Mull -
Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
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I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
-- Neil Young -
La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid
-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -
If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
-- R. Scott Bakker -
This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
-- R.L. LaFevers -
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In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
-- Robert Shaw -
I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.
-- Segolene Royal -
This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.
-- Seth Grahame-Smith -
To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.
-- Sidney Sheldon -
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My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.
-- Stewart Francis -
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
-- Terry Goodkind -
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
-- Victor Hugo -
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 707), 1922.
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Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
-- Winston Churchill -
My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.
-- Bahá'u'lláh -
Vengeance is a human right.
-- Gaspar NoeSource : "Fictional character: Mourad". "Irreversible", www.imdb.com. 2002.
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I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.
-- Gaspar Noe -
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Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.
-- Kobi Yamada -
When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.
-- Bob MarshallSource : "Va. delegate says reports on abortion comments were 'unfair'" by Fredrick Kunkle, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2010.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
-- Candice Bergen -
I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.
-- Rodney KingSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.
-- Steve Simmons -
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.
-- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi