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I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
Oct 1, 2025
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.
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.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people ask, "Does Adi want revenge?" - they mean violent revenge. But in Nozick's formulation, it is revenge. That is the essence of revenge.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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.
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
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.
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
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?
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.
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
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.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
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.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
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.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
The best revenge is massive success.