Vengeance Quotes - Page 11

Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.

Walt F. J. Goodridge

Weakness, Doing You, Belief

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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

Bill Vaughan

Catholic Religion, People, Doubt

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System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

Steve Simmons

Practice, Administration, Theory

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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Aeschylus

Block, Fate, Blow

Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.370

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If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.

John Maynard Keynes

Europe, Dare, Aim

John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.136, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.

Bahá'u'lláh

Son, Men, Fire

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Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.

Liz Jensen

Hangover, Night, Tangled

Liz Jensen (2009). “The Rapture”, p.101, A&C Black

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It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.

Pope Francis

Justice, Doe, Victim

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We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sacrifice, Hatred, Humanity

"Orthodoxy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.

Catherynne M. Valente

Ends

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The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

R.L. LaFevers

Thinking, Shells, Body

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This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

R.L. LaFevers

Want, Mercy, Instruments

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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

Christopher Marlowe

Book, Oysters, Envy

Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

George R. R. Martin

Blood, Justice, Wells

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When I heard the ghouls coming for you, all I cared about was reaching you in time. How often must I tell you that you mean more to me than vengeance? I can live without defeating my enemies, but I cannot live without you.

Jeaniene Frost

Mean, Ghouls, Enemy

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To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

Sidney Sheldon

Justice, Greek, Ancient

Sidney Sheldon (2012). “Memories of Midnight”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

Simon Wiesenthal

Children, Justice, Causes

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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

Honore de Balzac

Hate, Men, Hatred

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Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins!

Fred Phelps

America, Evil, Sin

"9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

Norton Juster

Trying, Doing You, Enthusiasm

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The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.

T. Coleman Andrews

Pride, Men, Self

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Imagine ... Imagine no religion.

John Lennon

Regret, No Regrets, Imagine

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We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace.

Menno Simons

Christian, Religious, Peace

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Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

Marya Hornbacher

Waiting, Doe, Starvation

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After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate and misguided vengeance to send our young people to die and kill in two countries that were no threat to the USA or to our way of life. The neocons exploited patriotism to fulfill their goals of imperialism and plunder. This sort of patriotism begins when we enter kindergarten and learn the nationalist 'Pledge of Allegiance'. It transcends all sense when we are taught the 'Star Spangled Banner', a hymn to war.

Cindy Sheehan

Country, Stars, War

"Matriotism" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

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