Justice should not admit a public’s thirst for pure revenge.
The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.
‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X.’ I’ve used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.
If you’re not catfishing someone for romantic reasons, then it’s going to be hard to sympathize and be compassionate with someone who is doing it for revenge, who’s doing it for fun and games, who’s doing it because they want to be on TV.
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it’s like people have said in endless magazines, it’s the revenge of the geeks and all that. There’s some truth in that.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
The best revenge is success.
For years, people have re-dialed when the line was busy. They waited their turn. When I’m put on hold, I always hope that as my revenge, their other call will be someone wanting to sell them something.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
Taxi Driver’ is about taking revenge for the people who were hurt.
I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
I don’t think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I’ll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.
Blissfully, I don’t have the revenge gene.
I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
My journey with Krishna Vamsi had started with revenge and ended with love. When I went to Krishna Vamsi’s office to work as an assistant director, I was sent out. Then I had thought they might one day need me.
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that ‘all religions are basically the same.’
To write is a relief from life’s problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
I was a socially awkward 8-year-old kid who fell in love with wrestling when he felt like the whole world was against him. That’s the key word: love. I don’t do this for revenge; I do this because I love it. That’s Johnny Wrestling.
We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love.
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
It’s important we understand our system seeks justice and not revenge.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
I can’t let my mother’s death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.
As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I’ve been had.
Why should DMK align with Congress after blaming the Congress of taking revenge on it for the 2G scam, which caused the exchequer a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Why should Congress take revenge? Does that mean the Congress did not get its due share from the DMK?
The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it’s very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Ruining someone else’s life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.
Revenge proves its own executioner.
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.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
I’ve had to write in a different way because I’m not in a bad place and I’m not heartbroken, so there’s no one I want revenge on.
My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.
I’m a big ‘Goosebumps’ fan – ‘Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.’ My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.
