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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. Elizabeth Fry

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

Mitchell Baker

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.

Letitia Baldrige

It's important we understand our system seeks justice and not revenge.

Pete Gallego

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.'

Ravi Zacharias

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

Carrie Underwood

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Susan Sontag

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Jeremy Taylor

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.

Jane Elliot

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

Pat Brown

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

Sylvester Stallone

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

Friedrich Schiller

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Francis Bacon

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

Steven Pinker

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Edward Gibbon

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

Hiawatha

Success is the sweetest revenge.

Vanessa Williams

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

Hayden Christensen

Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.

Richard Ben-Veniste

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

Uwe Boll

Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.

Rick Perlstein

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Amy Adams

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

John Boyd Orr

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

Siobhan Fahey

Revenge proves its own executioner.

John Ford

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Samuel Johnson

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Ralph Steadman

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

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.

Marya Mannes

I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

Lana Parrilla

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Robert Crumb

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.

Steven Moffat

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.

Muhammad Ali

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.

Lewis B. Smedes

The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

Hailee Steinfeld

As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.

Karin Slaughter