Vengefulness Quotes

“Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies

“Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

“Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

“So many of us have become afraid and angry. We’ve become so fearful and vengeful that we’ve thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak—not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough, less broken. I thought of the victims of violent crime and the survivors of murdered loved ones, and how we’ve pressured them to recycle their pain and anguish and give it back to the offenders we prosecute. I thought of the many ways we’ve legalized vengeful and cruel punishments, how we’ve allowed our victimization to justify the victimization of others. We’ve submitted to the harsh instinct to crush those among us whose brokenness is most visible.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Revenge is hollow and insatiable. It never satisfies; it never heals. It leaves us remorseful or hungry for more.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones”
― Munia Khan

“The devil desires vengeance more than the blind desire vision. The blind wishes to see, but the devil chooses to be blind.”
― Rohit Dharupta, Disorder of the World

“[The archbishop’s court] sentenced him to the loss of his prebend and all other revenues for two years, with the profits to be distributed to the poor at the king’s discretion, to a public whipping in the presence of the judge he had insulted, and possibly to one or two years’ banishment. Henry [II] was outraged by the leniency.”
― Frank Barlow, Thomas Becket