Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marge Piercy

The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You wait and wait.

Theodor Adorno

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Theodor Adorno

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

Theodor Adorno

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

Max Lucado

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.

Max Lucado

Resentment is when you allow what’s eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.

Meg Cabot

Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit...

Maximilien Robespierre

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

Marilynne Robinson

John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.

Pablo Neruda

Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.

Philip Russell

His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

Marianne Williamson

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.

Louis L'Amour

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

Michael O'Donoghue

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

Jerry Seinfeld

The best revenge is living well.

Jerome K. Jerome

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

James A. Forbes

It is not possible to achieve by vigilance in anger and revenge what the soul is longing for. The soul longs for peace.

James A. Garfield

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.

Hillary Clinton

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

Etty Hillesum

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.

Euripides

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Francis Bacon

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Francis Bacon

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

Francis Bacon

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Fran Lebowitz

That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

George Santayana

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.

Chris Pine

Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to get there. But right now it seems like we're duplicating what was written in the Bible, a millennium ago, which is "An eye for an eye." Revenge policy; "If you hit me, we'll hit you back worse"; ad infinitum.

Chris Johnson

We want revenge. We played well against them last time, and we feel like it's our turn.

George W. Bush

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

George W. Bush

You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.

George W. Bush

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

Garth Brooks

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.