Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
~ Coretta Scott King
Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!
~ Joel Osteen
I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.
~ Tim O'brien
Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
~ Michael K. Williams
What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?
~ Mike Barnicle
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~ Josh Billings
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
~ Scott Adams
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
~ Desmond Tutu
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
~ Nick Wechsler
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.
~ Alanis Morissette
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
~ Susan Sontag
After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business.
~ Travis Kalanick
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
~ Sandra Cisneros
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
~ Hiawatha
Success is the sweetest revenge.
~ Vanessa Williams
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.
~ Douglas Horton
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
~ Francis Bacon
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
~ Austin O'malley
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
~ Agnes Obel
The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.
~ Colum Mccann
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
~ John Pomfret
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
