#vengeance

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#death-penalty #punishment #the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man #vengeance #victor-hugo

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#coincide #enemy #minds #most #people

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#deep #silence #vengeance

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

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#critics #hard #judgment #justice #leaves

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. ↗

— Baroness Orczy

#beings #creatures #crowd #ear #eye

If a man could make the earth heaven to get you, could also make it hell for you if he couldn't get you. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#hell #love #vengeance #love

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#sue-grafton #v-is-for-vengeance #life

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#enemies #flavia-de-luce #humor #intelligence #sarcasm

When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfather told him, "Many fine things your father had planned for you: learning and useful work and a life of satisfaction and peace. Do you recall this?" "Yes, Grandfather." "The learning you shall have. You will learn patience and resource, the ability of your hands and your mind. You will have useful work: the destruction of evil men. What work could be more useful? This is Beyond; you will find that your work is never done—so therefore you may never know life of peace. However, I guarantee you ample satisfaction, for I will teach you to crave the blood of these men more than the flesh of woman." The old man had been as good as his word. ↗

— Jack Vance

#the-star-king #vengeance #death