Avenging famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs - the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. Nor was it spontaneous. It was planned to inflict maximum damage, during a staff meeting, with automatic weapons and a getaway plan. It was designed to sow terror, and in that it has worked.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
-- Edmund White

#Class #People #Avenging
If now, after the collapse, should any of these lackeys of Adolf Hitler have the insolence to claim they were merely harmless onlookers, let them feel the scourge of avenging mankind .... Whoever cries about having lost the Nazi system or wants to resurrect National Socialism is to be treated as a lunatic.
-- Friedrich Kellner

#Avenging #Want #Cry
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong.
-- Jane Porter

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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
-- Jane Porter

#Inspirational #Avenging
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Peace #Avenging #Doers
We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
-- T. H. White

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Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
The [budget] deficit isn't the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is.
One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.
In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best.
They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
A heart that desires to give is the one that succeeds.
The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.
We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.
In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.