„Make Europe your revenge.“

„You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.“

—  Eddie Vedder musician, songwriter, member of Pearl Jam 1964

This quote was taken from the Synergy's Echoes page ( December, 1991 Houston, Texas, KLOL FM Echoes of Exposure with David Sadoff ).

„I want your love and I want your revenge
You and me could write a bad romance“

—  Lady Gaga American singer, songwriter, and actress 1986

Bad Romance, written by Lady Gaga and RedOne
Song lyrics, The Fame Monster (2009)

„The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.
-Kenshin to Eiji“

—  Nobuhiro Watsuki Japanese manga artist 1970

„When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.“

—  Sacha Guitry French dramatist and playwright 1885 - 1957

Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83

„When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.“

—  Jodi Picoult, könyv Nineteen Minutes

Forrás: Nineteen Minutes

„There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.“

—  Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

„Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God’s going to have his revenge.“

—  Madonna American singer, songwriter, and actress 1958

Madonna Interview : Q Magazine, Q, 2003-04-01 http://allaboutmadonna.com/madonna-library/madonna-interview-q-magazine-april-2003,

„A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.“

—  Bernard Crick British political theorist and democratic socialist 1929 - 2008

Forrás: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism, p. 87.

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

—  Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

„Revenge! No — what good would that do? — it would make him no better, and me no happier.“

—  Anne Brontë, könyv The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Forrás: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVII : The Neighbour Again; Helen to Walter

„I want to tell her revenge is a devil you don’t want to worship. In destroying your enemy you become it.“

—  Karen Marie Moning author 1964

Forrás: Burned

„You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.“

—  Paulo Coelho, könyv The Devil and Miss Prym

Forrás: The Devil and Miss Prym

„The greatest revenge is massive success.“

—  Les Brown American politician 1945

„Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.“

—  William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Forrás: Vanity Fair

„Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk American novelist, essayist 1962

„Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.“

—  Adeline Yen Mah, könyv Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society

Forrás: Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society

„…By Allah, we will take revenge! By Allah, we will take revenge! Even if it takes a while, we will take revenge, and every amount of harm against the Ummah will be responded to with multitudes more against the perpetrator…“

—  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 1971 - 2019

As quoted in Dabiq, issue #12; published November 18, 2015, pg. 2
2014, 2015
Forrás: http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/islamic-state-isis-isil-dabiq-magazine-issue-12-just-terror.pdf

„Revenge should not be our motivation.“

—  Mac Maharaj South African politician 1935

„I write out of revenge.“

—  William Goldman American novelist, screenwriter and playwright 1931 - 2018