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• Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor.

  Rachel Vincent

  Justice, Survivor, Victim

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Shift”, p.126, MIRA

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• Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

  Henry George Bohn

  Forgiveness

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• There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

  Glen Cook

  Heart, Dark, Coward

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Ambition, Pride

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• I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

  Segolene Royal

  Want, Spirit, Protect

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• Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.

  Tuvia Bielski

  Death, Revenge, Freedom

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• Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Memories

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• I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

  Rodney King

  Mom, Religious, Remember

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them

  Zacky Vengeance

  Said

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• Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

  Charles Simmons

  Healing, Health, Law

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• A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

  Bernard Crick

  Revenge, Past, Suffering

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.87, University of Chicago Press

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• Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

  Janet Reno

  Government, Indulge In, Reactions

  1994 Opposing the death penalty. In the NewYorkTimes,15 May.

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• Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Lying, Believe

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• Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts only for a day, but the glory of the forbearing lasts until the end of time. Though unjustly aggrieved, it is best to suffer the suffering and refrain from unrighteous retaliation.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Suffering, Gold, Lasts

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• Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay.

  Thucydides

  Selfish, Thinking, Issues

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• To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

  Joseph Stalin

  Bed, World, Victim

  Joseph Stalin (1940). “Stalin's kampf: Joseph Stalin's credo”

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• If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

  Denise Morrison

  Roles, Want, Ceo

  "On Being Your Own CEO" by Nell Merlino, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 08, 2012.

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• I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.

  Gaspar Noe

  Want, Way, Ifs

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.

  Ramsey Clark

  Violence, Execution, Criminals

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• There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Peace, Gun, Missing

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• The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kraken, Dinner, Sushi

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• What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?

  William Shakespeare

  Ems, Fairness, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2772, Oxford University Press

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• And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.

  Janet Morris

  Modesty, Lost, Thirst

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• Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insane, Execution, Sacred

  George Bernard Shaw (2008). “Pygmalion and Major Barbara”, p.41, Bantam Classics

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

  Guy Sajer

  War, Soldier, Depth

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.119, Potomac Books, Inc.

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