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Quotes About Vindictive

Richard Nixon is typically considered the modern exemplar of a dark and vindictive president. President Trump would be Nixon minus the keen intellect and work ethic.
~ Rick Wilson
Look. Whatever Gina Leigh told you about Delilah, it's not true. Gina is a vindictive psychopath. She's been blackmailing people, impersonating her daughter, for years.
~ Sara Shepard
Un resentido es siempre peligroso.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Now, Jehovah, Yahweh, was a member of no Trinity, was represented by no lambs, suffered no little children. He was an almighty vindictive deity. He meddled in individual lives. And He was always right because He was.
~ Ellery Queen
It appears to me very remarkable, and deserving of notice, that, as in the present life the people of this nation are beyond all others irascible and prompt to revenge, so also in the life that is after death, the saints of this country, exalted by their merits above those of other lands, appear to be of a vindictive temper.
~ Gerald of Wales
Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement—not replace—the process of change through legal recourse. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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~ Jonathan Meres
Captivating to men, Anne was also sharp, assertive, subtle, calculating, vindictive, a power dresser and a power player, perhaps a figure to be more admired than liked.
~ Eric Ives
Closed and gregarious, vindictive and solicitous, Stalin shatters any attempt to contain him within binaries. He was by inclination a despot who, when he wanted to be, was utterly charming. He was an ideologue who was flexibly pragmatic.
~ Stephen Kotkin
I'm real petty. I remember everything like an elephant.
~ Israel Adesanya
Because Odin was a sick, vindictive fuck and it had always amazed Hel that so few mortals remembered that about the Allfather.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Got one," P.J. called. "Motherfucker is ball-less and singing soprano." "Jesus, that woman is vicious," Joe muttered. "That's our girl," Renshaw called back smugly.
~ Maya Banks
Suffering to the criminal can never be justified by the notion of vindictive punishment. If education combined with kindness is equally effective, it is to be preferred; still more is it to be preferred if it is more effective.
~ Bertrand Russell
I think everybody's got a malicious side.
~ Jonathan Rhys Meyers
That's the kind of person she was, a cat-kicker. What a bitch.
~ Sue Grafton
That's the kind of person she was, a cat-kicker.
~ Sue Grafton
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
~ Stefan Zweig
Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.
~ Francis Bacon
Revenge is such a tiresome business.
~ Terry Brooks
The tapes are the real man—mean, vindictive, panicky, striking first in anticipation of being struck, trying to lift his own friable self-esteem by shoving others down. Murray Kempton said he wanted to leave no fingerprints, but he went about it in such a way as to leave his fingerprints all over his story. Nixon's real tragedy is that he never had the stature to be a tragic hero. He is the stuff of sad (almost heartbreaking) comedy.
~ Garry Wills
the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity
~ Herman Melville
Democracy is more vindictive than Cabinets. The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.' Penetrating words, and he had no idea just how horribly true they would prove over the next fifty years.
~ Geoffrey Wheatcroft
We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.
~ Noam Chomsky