Vengeance, is good. You give it, you get it. It's all part of what makes us human. So thank god for vengeance. Otherwise, the human race might as well just roll over and let another species for a while. I think it will be the cats. Watch 'em. They're cooking up something.
Vengeance is disappointing, always.
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.
My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. "
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".
The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.
Some of the things we said looked worse than we meant them
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
I don't think vengeance is much good.