I write out of revenge.
It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
Darkness. . . When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.
Revenge is a meal best served cold.
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families. ' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.
Years ago, I thought that if a person had experienced injustice in her life, it meant she would be fair, because she would know what it meant to be a victim of injustice. But now I am not so sure. Experiencing injustice can also make a person dangerous. Carrying a sense of revenge and anger can make a person victimize their own self.
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,. . . nor of torture to extort confessions.
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge. "
A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.