Gilles Deleuze Quotes

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things

Justice is inextricably linked to revenge, which is both morally right and a deeply internalized instinct as innate to man as breathing, having sex, falling in love, and making war.

Revenge is a powerful motivator.

I think revenge is an extremely potent and powerful weapon, and hatred is more powerful sometimes than love.

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing

Sweet is revenge-especially to women.

Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

I'd like to believe that I would be able to give in the same way Mandela did, but in reality, I don't know whether that is true. It is much more likely that I would be left with an immense sense of injustice and immense desire for revenge.

There will be killing till the score is paid.

I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.