“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Confucius
“In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind”
“What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval”
Mark Twain
“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Had I revenged wrong, I had not worn my skirts so long.”
Benjamin Franklin