#spite

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #correction #distinction #hatred #instigation

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ↗

— Anne Frank

#build #confusion #consisting #death #everything

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#grudges #revenge #spite #forgiveness

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#resilience #spite #forgiveness

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze." (Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#spite #writing #humor

From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#align #another #blocks #chose #cold

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#because #dependence #economic #give #impose

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#america #contend #good #i #might

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#advantage #after #child #child labor #despite