Quotes About Violence And Revenge

#1. Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Hiawatha

#2. May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Marianne Williamson

#3. Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

Sting

#4. If the world is unjust, get drunk, wave a sword, then cut off heads.

A Que

#5. You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there's a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them."
"And there's a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open."
Ash & Urian

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Hate springs from fear. Violence is released hatred. Behind every hateful crime and act of human brutality is an admission of fearfulness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera.

Judith Martin

#8. We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.

Milton Mayeroff

#9. Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

Cat Stevens

#10. There is no greater ignorance than a man with a closed mind

Lou Silluzio

#11. The Saints come,
as human as a mouth,
with a bag of God in their backs,
like a hunchback,
they come,
they come marching in.

Anne Sexton

#12. Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

Eoin Colfer

#13. Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

T.H. White

#14. I don't believe in revenge. It's unnecessary. I prefer using a very discreet psychological intervention topped of with a short burst of extreme violence!

Jose N. Harris

#15. In my heart, I know I haven't been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers. I'm not talking just on the field, I'm talking off the field.

Ben Roethlisberger

#16. An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Joe Walsh

#18. Throughout the world we see human suffering, anger, revenge, addictions, violence in the street, and tremendous injustice.

Miguel Ruiz

#19. Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

Harry Caray

#20. One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor.

Steven Pinker

#21. The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins.

Floyd Landis

#22. Revenge ... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Jeremy Taylor

#23. Revenge was violence and therefore forbidden by the Teacher - excepting violence against unbelievers, of course, which this probably would be.

Dave Duncan

#24. The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence
roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

Frank Herbert

#25. Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Billy Joel

#26. I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don't want to wind up like you. I don't want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.

Jenna Brooks

#27. Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Sandra Cisneros

#28. In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.

Emily Thorne

#29. I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

Robbie Williams

#30. Man must seek his Maker.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. Hate is self-inflicted torture. It hungers for revenge, damage, division, and violence, but is never satiated. Hate is a psychological hell to which we condemn ourselves and endeavor to burn others.

Steve Maraboli

#32. Fear, she's the mother of violence.

Peter Gabriel

#33. In Brohier's eyes, violence was not merely the last refuge of the incompetent. It was the gloating revenge of the sore loser.

Arthur C. Clarke

#34. Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover

Joseph Addison

#36. Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat

Tom DeLay

#37. Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

Ozzy Osbourne

#38. I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

Ogden Nash

#39. I chose not to fight it. Eating them ... is my revenge.

J.H. Myn

#40. Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.

Billy Graham

#41. I've never had a very great public life.

Cameron Mackintosh

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

Craig R. Key