Top 44 War Revenge Quotes
#1. Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.
Raheel Farooq
#2. No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.
Zelda Popkin
#3. Remembering the treatment that had been accorded the Knights and soldiers of St. Elmo, the Maltese inhabitants of Senglea took no prisoners. Hence there arose the expression (used in Malta to this day) 'St. Elmo's pay' for any action in which no mercy is given.
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford
#4. I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.
Aeschylus
#5. I'd single-handedly go to war and burn their whole organization to the ground before I ever let them harm what was mine. And there were no two ways about it- Brighton would always be mine.
A. Zavarelli
#6. Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.
Garry Kasparov
#7. I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.
Ludacris
#8. Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.
T.H. White
#9. This war's not over! Not by a long shot! --Enoch
S.R. Ford
#10. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Chief Seattle
#11. Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.
Lara Logan
#12. We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back, a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?
Philip K. Dick
#14. In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat.
Emily Thorne
#15. War is the enemy of civilization. We cannot grow through war, Xander. It drags us down, filling our hearts with hatred and thoughts of revenge.
David Gemmell
#16. To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries; it leads to endless hatreds, feelings of revenge, misunderstandings, and frictions. It is the surest guarantee for perpetual mass wars.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#17. Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.
Terry Pratchett
#18. The college strike didn't happen overnight. It started years ago when the war against boys began after the feminist era. Initially, feminism was presented as being about equal rights between the sexes. Now it is often about revenge and special privileges for women and girls.
Helen Smith
#19. I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall of the gods, but quite another to take a helpless man's life ...
Bernard Cornwell
#20. So it's okay to kill if your intentions are pure?" "Hasn't that always been the case?" Eliot takes a swig of his beer and flops back on the sofa. "Revenge. Capital punishment. Euthanasia. War.
Judd Trichter
#21. It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
Sybille Bedford
#22. Star Wars Episode Three (And One Quarter): Revenge Of The Hicks
Ron White
#23. The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.
Zalmay Khalilzad
#24. I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin
Shinobu Ohtaka
#25. Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
Simone De Beauvoir
#26. Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.
Alanis Morissette
#27. Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.
John Newton
#28. The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.
Marge Piercy
#29. 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
#30. I'm tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you.
Sally Green
#31. The goddess Nemesis, Bertol Grimmer's favourite motif after the War. The goddess of revenge.
Jo Nesbo
#32. 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
#33. These trials aren't about revenge. They're about justice. Don't you want justice, Rose Justice?
Elizabeth Wein
#34. Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#35. And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
William Shakespeare
#36. A victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.
Muriel Lester
#37. Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
Meir Kahane
#39. Slaughter personified to him every evil of this war. It would never end for Tom until he had dealt with Slaughter. His chance had been delayed last night. The next time he encountered the Colonel, he'd kill him.
C.G. Faulkner
#40. Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?
John Milton
#41. Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.
Emily Thorne
#42. That's what it's come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we'll be free.
James S.A. Corey
#44. [The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.
Sir Laurens Van Der Post