Revenge Quotations

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business.

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

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.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

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

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

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

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

The best revenge in the world is success.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.

On the 'Revenge' set, even if they're not showing my feet, I'll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

The Black Panther Party were not revenge nationalists.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mothers family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

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

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.