Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King Jr
All creatures killthere seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. Gods going to have his revenge.
Madonna Louise Ciccone
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
Pierre Charron
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future
Marya Mannes
The most effective moments in the theatre are those that appeal to basic and commonplace emotions--love of woman, love of home, love of country, love of right, anger, jealousy, revenge, ambition, lust, and treachery.
CLAYTON HAMILTON
I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.
Jorge Luis Borges
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis De Sade
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Emile M. Cioran
Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
Juvenal
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
Mark Twain
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
Martin Luther King Jr
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson