Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it’s going to help a situation is always wrong. – Louise Erdrich
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. – Billy Ray Cyrus Robby Ray Stewart in Hannah Montana.
Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it’s not the most Christian of sentiments. – Radha Mitchell
‘Revenge’ is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like ‘Dallas,’ ‘Dynasty’ and ‘Falcon Crest.’ Yet there’s no wink-wink camp. – Rob Sheffield
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. – Salman Rushdie
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. – Samuel Johnson
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. – Sandra Cisneros
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that ‘all religions are basically the same.’ If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be ‘converted’ to another religion? – Ravi Zacharias
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. – Robert Crumb
Call it Camelot’s revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long – because, after all, America was ruled by noble men. – Rick Perlstein
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. – Ralph Steadman
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society. – Pat Brown
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. – Samuel Johnson
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate – the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries. – Richard Ben-Veniste
Lesley Gore’s part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in ‘It’s My Party,’ savored revenge in the sequel ‘Judy’s Turn to Cry’ and belted the proto-feminist anthem ‘You Don’t Own Me.’ – Richard Corliss
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that ‘all religions are basically the same.’ – Ravi Zacharias
I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate. – Rosanne Cash
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it’s an absolute duty. – Stieg Larsson
It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq’s invasion in 1980. – William Odom
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay. – Tacitus
I’m a big ‘Goosebumps’ fan – ‘Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.’ My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones. – Tyler, The Creator
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films. – Vin Diesel
