Top 40 Quotes About Vengeance And Justice
#1. When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
Criss Jami
#2. Is his work vengeance? Or Justice? There is the finest line between the two and when i try to focus on it, it becomes less and less clear.
Jodi Picoult
#3. 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.
Jack McDevitt
#4. Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson
#5. AGAMEMNON: I will not slay my children, nor shall thy interests be prospered by justice in thy vengeance for a worthless wife, while I am left wasting, night and day, in sorrow for what I did to one of my own flesh and blood, contrary to all law and justice.
Euripides
#6. 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
#7. Lynx stood and raced to the camp. "Attend to our injured!" She unsheathed a machete and made for Hare's killer.
Heron grabbed her wrist. "Wait. He's still conscious."
"Then he will feel my machete," she replied, voice like ice.
Gwynn White
#8. Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another.
Ken Scholes
#9. It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing.
Patrick Rothfuss
#10. 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.
Larry Flynt
#11. Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.
Elsa Triolet
#12. Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.
Max Lucado
#13. The man who walks in the shadow of vengeance is a different man from the man who walks in the light of justice.
Graeme Rodaughan
#14. You think angels are gentle," said Julian, "they are anything but. They bring justice in blood and heavenly fire. They take vengeance with fists and iron. Their glory is such it would burn out your eyes if you looked at them. It is a cold and brutal glory.
Cassandra Clare
#15. She narrowed her eyes. "What is our heart's desire?"
"Vengeance." His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. "Justice." Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, "Fire and blood.
George R R Martin
#16. I have taken many lives in my life. Many children, perhaps husbands, wives, parents. Perhaps it is only just that this same violation was inflicted upon me. Perhaps it is just that one who lives a life of war becomes a refugee from it.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#17. You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.
James Cameron
#18. I do not support vengeance. I support justice. They are not one in the same.
Mark Andrew Poe
#19. We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.
David Kaczynski
#21. God says clearly that vengeance is His, and our position is to be one of faith in Him, waiting patiently and lovingly as He works justice in our lives. When
Joyce Meyer
#22. Risk is everywhere. Only the nobles have the luxury of a long easy life. Justice, vengeance, the ability to carve out your own fate instead of being herded like an animal. Sometimes it's worth dying for.
Livia Blackburne
#23. A man of your valor deserves not another breath.
Craig R. Key
#24. It's Magic, you see. It's justice you hold. It's vengeance for your father. It's home.
George R R Martin
#25. Where does seeking justice end and seeking vengeance begin?
Paula Stokes
#26. was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out of their grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing. I
Patrick Rothfuss
#27. To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.
Sidney Sheldon
#28. It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.
Pope Francis
#29. Justice is for the victim. Vengeance is for the survivor.
Rachel Vincent
#30. You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood. - Tywin & Tyrion
George R R Martin
#31. Justice is for the victim." Kick. "Vengeance is for the survivor.
Rachel Vincent
#32. When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Chuck Jones
#33. I failed the test. He's right. It wasn't justice. Justice is dispassionate; it is fair. I am the leader. I passed the sentence. I should have done it. Instead, I gave license to vengeance and vendetta. The cancer will not be cut away; I made it worse.
Pierce Brown
#35. Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.
Elizabeth Carlton
#37. But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.'
'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God.
Katherine Neville
#38. An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
Marilyn Vos Savant
#39. One has no room for vengeance,' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#40. Justice and vengeance get all tangled together when the law is written by a tyrant and ultimately overturned by the forces of anger and resentment.
Robert J. Crane
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