Quotes on Exacting Revenge

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

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

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

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Living well is the best revenge.

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

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.