Cycle of Vengeance Quotes

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain...Why do family feuds go on and on?...the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.

We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.

I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?