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Quotes About Vendettas

The further south the throng went, the more reasons it discovered. Vendettas once sworn for half-forgotten offenses were remembered and invented with each passing blow. Everyone felt like a conduit of justice.
~ Adam Levin
Muhammad preached his farewell sermon to the Muslim community. He reminded them to deal justly with one another, to treat women kindly, and to abandon the blood feuds and vendettas inspired by the spirit of jahiliyyah. Muslim must never fight against Muslim.
~ Karen Armstrong
Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.
~ Donald Glover
Ah, revenge, revenge. In the better world of the imagination it was possible to get one's own back. What fiendish vendettas were there carried to successful ends!
~ Aldous Huxley
'Cartel Land' explores what happens when - in a Mexican society without order, law or security - vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world.
~ Matthew Heineman
It could be a work of art among vendettas
~ Frank Herbert
What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.
~ Mario Puzo
As soon as your physical space is clear, you'll have to address the energy suckers. Take an inventory of where you're stuck, and don't get discouraged. Notice all the negative attitudes, resentments, dramas, and old vendettas you carry and write them down.
~ Sonia Choquette
At age ten, roughly the same percent of girls as boys are overtly aggressive, given to open confrontation when angered. But by age thirteen, a telling difference between the sexes emerges: Girls become more adept than boys at artful aggressive tactics like ostracism, vicious gossip, and indirect vendettas. Boys, by and large, simply continue being confrontational when angered, oblivious to these more covert strategies.
~ Daniel Goleman
Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas, under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.
~ Cinda Williams Chima