Quotes About Vindictiveness

She wanted, out of a kind of mysterious vindictiveness born of despair, to torture us with her torture, to arraign us, the hale and hearty, in the place of God.

excessive anger against authority, vindictiveness and temper tantrums. As far as she was concerned, that described the press.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid, sordid headmasters—turn infallibly to the vindictive.

Paran could feel nothing but the white fire of vengeance, filling his mind, coruscating through his body.

Ruining someone else's life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.

Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

He can't face you on an adult level, so he comes along and fucks up your truck. Classic payback method for the tiny-dick type.

They never show mercy because mercy was never shown to them

Mrkgnao! the cat cried. They call them stupid. They understand what we say better than we understand them. She understands all she wants to. Vindictive too. Cruel. Her nature.

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible7 is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God.

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

Revenge doesn't stop.

I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom – 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.

When a woman hates, she will wreck a dozen lives to pay back what she conceives to be some injury.

Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.

If you don't work intentionally with the criminal to help him come to love and accept himself, he will re-enter society with the same anger and vindictiveness.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

There is no end to vendetta politics.

We never ought to allow our instincts of justice to degenerate into mere vindictiveness.