#revenge

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad. ↗

— John Pomfret

#among #being #bosnia #certain #certain extent

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#faults #others #ourselves #revenge

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#down #drink #i #i see #much

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#dares #does #forgive #human #human soul

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#crimes #injuries #justice #passion #revenge

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#conflict #evolve #foundation #human #love

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ↗

— George Santayana

#force #passion #revenge #sometimes #superior

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#delight #despair #dreadful #end #feeds

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#corrosive #devising #evil #exact #hate