Quotes About Justice And Revenge

#1. You speak good words, child, but sometimes what lies within is much darker. The line between justice and revenge is then. Justice is order; revenge is chaos. If revenge is your innermost desire, you will be destroyed upon entering into the hall

Amira Aly

#2. I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for justice and revenge.
-the girl who played go

Shan Sa

#3. Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)

William Shakespeare

#4. People seek revenge by an accounting that exaggerates their innocence and their adversary's malice; when two sides seek perfect justice, they condemn themselves and their heirs to strife.

Steven Pinker

#5. Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#6. The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

Plato

#7. This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

Euripides

#8. But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

Robert Jordan

#9. In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.

Norris Henderson

#10. He said he did it for justice, for the honor of his family and House. But this is revenge, and how hollow it seems.

Pierce Brown

#11. Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody.

Alan Heathcock

#12. Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.

Erica O'Rourke

#13. Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.

Mary B. Harris

#14. Revenge is simply justice with teeth.

Simon R. Green

#15. Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.

Anne Bishop

#16. Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that wiil devour your very soul.

James Mace

#17. Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come.

Brent Weeks

#18. To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Desmond Tutu

#19. Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams.

V.S. Carnes

#20. If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.

Anthony Liccione

#21. Don't just get mad, try a little creative revenge ... Creative revenge ... allows you to get even - to extract some satisfactory justice - when you are wronged, but lets you do it with a sense of humor, not boiling malice.

Sonia Friedman

#22. If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Francis Bacon

#24. Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.

Sophie Jordan

#25. Something changed in my heart. The hardened frost-glittering surface melted just a little to allow my feelings for Callan to blaze bright. I wouldn't be fighting for revenge or ruthless justice. This time, I'd be fighting for love and connection.

Jade Hart

#26. Time is conscience of the universe.

Raheel Farooq

#27. Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#28. There is revenge and then there is justice. Sometimes the two are met as one.
-Christopher

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

#29. Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

Dean Koontz

#30. Revenge was a very wild kind of justice ...

Elizabeth Bowen

#31. Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

Cassandra Clare

#32. Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.

Adrian McKinty

#33. Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

Frank Herbert

#34. Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart.

Chris Galford

#35. It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Oscar Arias

#36. There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

Emilie Autumn

#37. When we destroy it." She spoke clearly now, steadily now. "If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it".

Nora Roberts

#38. The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Patricia Highsmith

#39. Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.

Antonya Nelson

#40. There was no justice in the world and evil men prospered. Kachiun struggled not to despair as he wrapped his deel around him, but there were times when he hated as ferociously as Temujin did. There should be justice. There should be revenge.

Conn Iggulden

#41. The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait,
A revenge not only necessary but right and clever
Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

Donald Justice

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

Samuel Johnson

#43. Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved.

Emily Thorne

#44. Wendy is still dead. I hadn't understood before: it really doesn't bring them back. Somehow, you think, despite what you know, it will be a trade. Find the person who did the wrong thing and they will suffer instead of the one who was killed. Instead, that person just suffers too.

Mariah Fredericks

#45. I dont get that
people going to war over religion. I dont know, I could see going to war over justice or democracy or even revenge. But if youre going to war over religion, now youre just killing people in an argument over who has the better imaginary friend.

Richard Jeni

#46. I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

J.K. Rowling

#47. Justice is revenge.

Saad Hariri

#48. Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice ... and settling for revenge.

Joan D. Vinge

#49. These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice?

Elizabeth Wein

#50. Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

Ivan Klima

#51. And what sort of choice is fall in love with me, or you're a pig?"
"Justice." Lizzie twirled a lock of hair around her little finger.

Ursley Kempe

#52. Revenge is a king of wild justice.

Francis Bacon

#53. Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.

David Gerrold

#54. Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.

Ashly Lorenzana

#55. Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?

Sloane Kennedy

#56. I'm thinking in my head I'd like to have five minutes alone with this guy to get some payback. But you got to keep a level head. You just got to get to the house, search, find anything you can to put these guys away and bring some justice and get some revenge for our brothers who were lost.

Justin Miller

#57. I do not seek revenge but I do require justice.

Melvina Germain

#58. For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

Confucius

#59. If it were evenly distributed," said Rodman, "the example of justice in the world might lead at last to a sane world policy. As it is, there is world despair and fury over the selfish fortune of a few, and all behave irrationally in revenge.

Isaac Asimov

#60. All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it's disproportionate.

Thane Rosenbaum

#61. Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#62. A woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.

Jodie Foster

#63. [The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

Sir Laurens Van Der Post

#64. There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#65. A man of your valor deserves not another breath.

Craig R. Key

#66. REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon