Quotes About Vindictive

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.

There is sometimes an almost vindictive streak in politics whereby governments follow policies which they know will harm the electorate, but nonetheless, they keep them, sometimes for years. The Corn Laws are a classic example.

Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place.

Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.

I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.

In my years in public service, I have advocated for reforms to our unforgiving and vindictive legal system.

I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.

The Congress is very vindictive, and they've proved it time and again.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful.

Whenever people would speculate about the death of my grandfather it was always this very retributive thing. That they were going to picket his funeral after all the things that he had done to so many other people. That vindictiveness is obviously completely understandable. It would make perfect sense.

His voice had the petty, triumphant air of someone who enjoys catching the small and meaningless mistakes of others.

For some people,being mean to others is the point of their lives.

Some people are just heartless, they just love hurting others but when you come across the wrong one they might beat you to the punch.

Rapacious great power is ruthless and vindictive; many of us can't imagine because we're not like that in our lives. John Pilger

Journalists, bless our black little hearts, are petty and vindictive and love to flog our hallowed journalism ethics whenever there's some momentary advantage and/or amusement value in doing so.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

She was not a person who had any right to decency or kindness, she was not a person to aspire to be. She was cruel, and she was evil in many ways. She took what she wanted from anyone, she was nasty, vindictive and she never threw me a kind word.

this vindictive heathen woman was going to be changed to an ardent convert to the Christian faith.

Revenge is the best revenge.