It is not violence that best overcomes hate nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
Charlotte Bront
Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.
John Ford
Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
English Proverb
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
Barbara Deming
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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.
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
The military posts vengeance on their websites, and seeks publicity for their displays of inhumanity.
Moran Margaret Cho
An essential condition of listening to God is that the mind should not be distracted by thoughts of resentment, ill-temper, hatred or vengeance, all of which are comprised in the general term, the wrath of man.
R. V. G. Tasker
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
Barbara Deming
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Arthur Schopenhauer