1,350 Quotes About Revenge
- Author Henry Rollins
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A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
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- Author Henry Rollins
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All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
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- Author Lou Reed
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This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.
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- Author Lou Reed
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Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.
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- Author Marilynne Robinson
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John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.
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- Author Maximilien Robespierre
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Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
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- Author Nora Roberts
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An eye for an eye.” “That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.” “The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.
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- Author Philip Russell
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His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.
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- Author Salman Rushdie
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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
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