#vengeful

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#circumspection #empowerment #men #peace #peacemaking

Don't pursue something with a vengeful heart, or it will destroy you. Hate wraps a cold hand around your heart and hollows you out." - Justus ↗

— Dannika Dark

#hate #heart #hollow #justus #mageri

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#combative #competitive #envious #jealous #man

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#be patient #life #life is too short #malicious #patient

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#does #forgotten #gnawing #grateful #great

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

#college #escape #go #gravity #i

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#does #god #good #harm #image