Noel Fisher Quotes

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

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

Some day we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill some of theirs.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

To have done more hurt to a man than he can, or is willing to expiate, inclineth the doer to hate the sufferer. For he must expect revenge or forgiveness; both of which are hateful.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Hatred will only breed hatred.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

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

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

I can't hold a grudge anyway.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.