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To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.
Joseph Stalin
Pick out a target, devise an exacting plan of revenge, satisfy a relentless grudge, and then retire to bed... Nothing surpasses such bliss.
3.
Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
Jonathan Kozol
6.
My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.
Stewart Francis
7.
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
Dalai Lama
8.
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
10.
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
Eric Hoffer
11.
Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".
Helen Prejean
14.
Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.
Kobi Yamada
15.
Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.
Charles Darwin
16.
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 Phelps
17.
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
Winston Churchill
18.
Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them
Zacky Vengeance
19.
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
Charles Dickens
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Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.
Elsa Triolet
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
George Bernard Shaw
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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
27.
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
Denise Morrison
29.
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
30.
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
32.
To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
Criss Jami
34.
Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
George MacDonald
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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
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A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance.
Samael Aun Weor
38.
I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.
Segolene Royal
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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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Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Chuck Jones
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Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.
Marya Hornbacher
44.
Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
Gary D. Schmidt
46.
Die Hard With A Vengeance shooting was a great time, because we had an interesting script. The first script was called Simon Says, and something was going on, because some days we'd get to work, but we wouldn't actually have dialogue. We would go to Bruce's Willis trailer, and they'd say, "Okay, you have to go from 168th Street to 97th Street today. We're going to do it in the cab, and Sam, you say this. Bruce, what do you want to say?" And that's how Bruce's "hey, Zeus!" thing came up.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo