Vengeance Quotes

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. (Vittorio Alfieri)
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
How he lies in his rights of a man Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. View quote
Robert Browning
Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism. View quote
Alfred Rosenberg
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. View quote
Norton Juster
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. View quote
Barbara Deming
At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance. (Candice Bergen)
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. View quote
Hans Urs von Balthasar
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance. View quote
Maeve Binchy
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. View quote
Samuel Johnson
As I see it, the sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself. View quote
Larry Flynt
Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed So, I was afraid. View quote
Robert Browning
All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. View quote
Chuck Jones
Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance. View quote
Michael Moorcock
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! View quote
Fred Phelps
Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet. (Clint Eastwood)
On natural selection: "Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance." View quote
Richard Dawkins
Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country. View quote
Denis Diderot
There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible. View quote
Jack McDevitt
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! View quote
Arthur Miller