William S. Cohen Quotes

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation. The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue. Democracy fights in anger — it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end.

The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

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

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Revenge is easy, but forgiveness requires courage.

I will always forgive but I will never forget.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

Forgiveness is better than revenge

It is not easy to talk about peace to people who are mourning every day.

It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger.

I always struggled with the idea of forgiving my enemies.

I struggle with insecurities. I struggle with forgiveness. I struggle with letting someone go that did me dirty without vengeance, which is an evil thing.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.