Vengeful Thoughts
Long before Linda Tripp got back at her White House ex-bosses by letting Monica Lewinsky out of the bag, even before Hamlet plotted to avenge his father's murder, human beings have been contemplating the ins and outs of revenge and forgiveness. Here are a few keen, pithy, witty, or wise thoughts on the subject.
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--Jesus (John 8:7), to an angry crowd about to stone an adulteress to death. The crowd decided to let the woman go.
"You should mistrust anyone in whom the urge to punish is strong."
--Friedrich Nietzche
"The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked."
--Psalms, Ch.58, V.10
"When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should -- so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."
--Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
--William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die."
--Mary Matalin
"Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath; for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."
--Romans 12:19
"If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgement; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me."
--Deuteronomy, Ch.32, V.41
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