Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go.

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

You screw me, I screw you back. I'm a lady like that.

Vengeance is without foresight.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.

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

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.