Quotes and Sayings About Revenge
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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
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!
-- Adolf Hitler -
I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
-- Agnes ObelSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.
-- Ahmed Kathrada -
Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
-- Ajahn Brahm -
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
-- Al Yankovic -
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
-- Al Yankovic -
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
-- Alain de Botton -
Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
-- Alain de Botton -
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
-- Alanis Morissette -
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The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
-- Albert Camus -
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.
-- Albert Pierrepoint -
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people...The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.
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Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.
-- Albert PierrepointSource : Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.
-- Alberto Manguel -
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
-- Alexander Pope -
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
-- Alexander the Great -
The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
-- Alfred Bester -
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The best revenge is to improve yourself.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.
-- Ally Carter -
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
-- Ally Carter -
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott