Top 335 Vengeance Quotes & Sayings

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Vengeance is without foresight.

Vengeance, is good. You give it, you get it. It's all part of what makes us human. So thank god for vengeance. Otherwise, the human race might as well just roll over and let another species for a while. I think it will be the cats. Watch 'em. They're cooking up something.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

Vengeance is a human right.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.

I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot.

Vengeance is just a lazy form of grief.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting...Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice.

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.

creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

Vengeance has no foresight.

[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized.

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

Vengeance is disappointing, always.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor.

My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.

Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

Never get vengeance and justice mixed up.

Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?

Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

I don't think vengeance is much good.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

I strongly believe vengeance is not mine; it is for God to decide.

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.