Revenge Quotes — Page 32

Jeaniene Frost

Author

“Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well.”

People Emotion Revenge

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Jeaniene Frost

Author

“Maximus grunted. "Some days you remind me of Vlad." "Meaning?" I said sharply. "Your obsession with revenge. Next you'll want to drive a pole through that vampire once you find her." The thought was appealing, but...”

Want Revenge Vampire

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John Ford

Film Director

“Revenge proves it's own executioner.”

Revenge Prove It

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Homer

Poet

“Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.”

Art Strong

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John Adams

Founding Father, Politician

“I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations or Parties, against their vanity, their Pride, their Resentment, or Revenge, or their Avarice, or Ambition. Nothing but Force and Power and Strength can restrain them.”

Party Philosophy Revenge

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Jonathan Swift

Satirist, Writer

“Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.”

Men Understanding Revenge

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Jonathan Swift

Satirist, Writer

“There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.”

Men Practice Revenge

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Julia Child

Chef, Author, Television Personality

“Some children like to make castles out of their rice pudding, or faces with raisins for eyes. It is forbidden -- so sternly that, when they grow up, they take a horrid revenge by dying meringues pale blue or baking birthday cakes in the form of horseshoes or lyres or whatnot.”

Children Growing Up Revenge

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Judith Butler

Philosopher, Gender Theorist

“I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of US soldiers urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban soldiers). Something of the pleasure in destruction gets unleashed, and then becomes part of war effort rationalised first as revenge (or justice defined as revenge). But then it takes new forms, as we see now.”

Thinking War Revenge

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Judith Butler

Philosopher, Gender Theorist

“If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.”

Actors Revenge Asking

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

“There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?”

Children Father Revenge

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Muhammad Ali

Boxer, Activist

“If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.”

Fighting Worry Revenge

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