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Quotes About Vengeance

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Dios mío! ¡Haz que existas! Haz que haya un cielo y un infierno me pasearé por los senderos del paraíso con mi hijo y con mi hija querida y ellos se retorcerán en las llamas de la envidia los miraré tostarse y gemir reiré y los niños reirán conmigo. Me debes esa revancha Dios mío. Exijo que me la des.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees, with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come—it will come, if his prayer is heard—a terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.
~ Solomon Northup
They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees, with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come—it will come, if his prayer is heard—a terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.
~ Solomon Northup
Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.
~ Sophie Kinsella
forbear, or I shall hate thee soon, And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.
~ Sophocles
raging plague in all its vengeance, devastating the house of Cadmus!
~ Sophocles
Banish the man, or pay back blood with blood. Murder sets the plague-storm on the city.
~ Sophocles
Burn that god of death that all gods hate!
~ Sophocles
you'll pay in tears, I promise you, for this, this witch-hunt.
~ Sophocles
But if these men are wrong, let them suffer nothing worse than they mete out to me— these masters of injustice!
~ Sophocles
stillborn, and the plague, the fiery god of fever hurls down on the city, his lightning slashing through us— raging plague in all its vengeance, devastating the house of Cadmus!
~ Sophocles
vengeance no one outruns
~ Sophocles
An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.
~ Natalya Vorobyova
The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.
~ Raheel Farooq
Revenge, at first though sweet,Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
~ John Milton
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bonesLie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold;Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of oldWhen all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stonesForget not.
~ John Milton
Isaiah and the writer of Psalm 137 also state how God will view the betrayal of Israel: "O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us" (Psalm 137:8) "A dire vision has been shown to me: The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot. Elam, attack! Media, lay siege! I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused." (Isaiah 21:2) "I will take vengeance; I will spare no one." (Isaiah 47:3)
~ John Price
When a nation's land is soaked with innocent blood, the only method of assuaging God's anger is the shedding of the blood of the bloodshedders.
~ John Price
I pledge my shade to the eternal torment of the one called Gaea!
~ John Varley
You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery, Enters the devil murder.
~ John Webster
O that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes! I would whip some with scorpions.
~ John Webster
Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!
~ John Wilkes Booth