#revenge

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#i #influenced #make #me #most

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#because #become #better #better looking #bit

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

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

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#our #policy #revenge #seek #some

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

Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#justice-without-mercy #loss-of-faith #retribution #revenge #the-big-peace