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Avenging Quotes

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

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

Jane Porter
Inspirational, Avenging, Injured
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.33

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
Self-interview, Dalkey Archive Press, 1994.

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

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

T. H. White
Past, Avenging
T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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
Revenge, Men, Avenging
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.33

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
Islamic, Thug, Avenging
"How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack". Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.metafilter.com. January 7, 2015.

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