#vengeance

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. ↗

— Guy Sajer

#terror #timeless #vengeance #war #world-war-ii

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#am #being #i #i am #most

God will not let any violence go unpunished, but He Himself will take vengeance on our enemies and will send home to them what they have deserved by the way they have treated us. As He Himself says (Deut. 23:55): “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” On the basis of this, St. Paul admonishes the Christians (Rom. 12:19): “Never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God.” These words are not only instruction but also consolation, as if He were to say: “Do not take it upon yourselves to avenge yourselves on one another or to speak curses and maledictions. The person that does you harm or injury is interfering with the office of God and sinning against God as gravely as this man has sinned against you. Therefore, keep your fist to yourself. Leave it to the charge of His wrath and punishing, for He will not let it remain unavenged, and His punishment is more severe than you would like. This man has not assailed you but God Himself, and has already fallen into His wrath. He will not escape this. No one ever has. So why get angry with him when the anger of God, immensely greater and more severe than the anger and punishment of the whole world, has already come upon him and has already avenged itself more thoroughly than you ever could? Besides, he has not injured you one tenth as much as he has injured God. When you see him lying under the severe condemnation, why so many curses and threats of vengeance? Rather you should take pity on his plight, and pray for him to be rescued from it and to reform. ↗

— Martin Luther

#vengeance #wrath #anger

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance. ↗

— Martin Mull

#back #i #painting #vengeance #went

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#deep #silence #vengeance

Just vengeance does not call for punishment. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#does #just #punishment #vengeance

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#destroyed #done #either #feared #greatly

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#am #catholic #feminist #husband #i

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

— Samuel Johnson

#crimes #injuries #justice #passion #revenge

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled." - from "The Tarishe Curse ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#retaliation #retribution #revenge #richelle #richelle-goodrich