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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The best revenge in the world is success.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

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.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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.

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

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.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

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.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.