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

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

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.
Julian Clary

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.
William Odom

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
Vin Diesel

Justice is revenge.
Saad Hariri

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin

Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert

Looking good is the best revenge.
Ivana Trump

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
Meir Kahane

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.
Marquis de Sade

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

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

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

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Thomas Fuller

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