No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

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.

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.

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

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It's not about revenge so much as, like, 'I'm back - now watch this!' It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.

Jason Voorhees was a kid who was picked on at summer camp, and Michael Myers was someone vilified by his own family. I think that's why gay people like horror movies, because it's seeking revenge on the privileged.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

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

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of revenge.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.