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Revenge Quotes

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Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
Albert Einstein

'Meek individuals exact retribution. Resolute people pardon. Wise folk disregard.'
Authors on Revenge Quotes: Friedrich Nietzsche William Shakespeare Charles Caleb Colton Niccolo Machiavelli Francis Bacon Janet Morris Sherrilyn Kenyon Marcus Aurelius Desmond Tutu The Notorious B.I.G. John Milton Edward Gibbon Samuel Johnson Martin Luther King, Jr. Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Green Ingersoll Juvenal Pierre Corneille Judith Butler Christopher Paolini George W. Bush William Goldman Gaspar Noe Tupac Shakur Seneca the Younger Mindy Kaling Susan Sontag Confucius Dolly Parton Jodi Picoult Ambrose Bierce Jo Nesbo Chuck Palahniuk
2.
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

May the Lord protect you from the sting of the snake, the claws of the tiger, and the retribution of the Afghans.
3.
The best revenge is to improve yourself.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

The most effective retribution is to elevate yourself.
4.
Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I demand only this...that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time. Senators, the war is over.
Julius Caesar

5.
Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.
Ahmed Kathrada

Malevolence, rancour, acrimony - these are destructive sentiments. The individual nurturing those feelings suffers the most.
6.
Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
Ajahn Brahm

'No need to retaliate; retribution will come eventually.'
7.
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
Hermann Hesse

8.
No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
Mary, Queen of Scots

I will now cease crying; I will contemplate retribution.
9.
Success is the best revenge.
Kanye West

Triumph is the sweetest retribution.
10.
No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.
Zayn Malik

Retaliate against detractors by proving their critiques incorrect.
11.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius

Before commencing a mission of retribution, make preparations for two funerals.
12.
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Zora Neale Hurston

Malignancy is the faint-hearted's retribution on the universe for having been injured.
13.
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
Hiawatha

I have transformed from a pacifist and adorer to an aggressor and retaliator.
14.
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
Marcus Aurelius

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Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger.
Mary Browne

16.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

17.
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.
Etty Hillesum

19.
Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.
William Lloyd Garrison

20.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius

21.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry

22.
They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.
Dr. Dre

23.
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
Tacitus

24.
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
Samuel Gompers

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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
John Adams

26.
You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
Eddie Vedder

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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.
Marya Mannes

28.
The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
Robert Green Ingersoll

29.
What goes around, comes around.
Willie Nelson

30.
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw

31.
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.
Samuel Johnson

32.
I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.
Vincent Price

33.
No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.
Sulla

34.
There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
Banksy

35.
I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.
Hank Williams, Jr.

36.
No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights.
Judith Butler

37.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Alfred Hitchcock

38.
Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow

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We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

40.
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.
David Hume

41.
The best revenge in the world is success.
Suge Knight

42.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Marcus Aurelius

43.
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.
Milan Kundera

44.
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.
Tupac Shakur

45.
Real revenge is making something of yourself.
Gerard Way

46.
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
Desmond Tutu

47.
Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.
Ed Sheeran

48.
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.
Amy Adams

49.
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
Marjane Satrapi

50.
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
John Steinbeck