Line #61 Quotes/CycleOfRevenge


1	->''"Hear my words boy. In the days of the first songs, [[SapientCetaceans Tulkun]] fought amongst themselves for territory and for revenge. But they came to believe that killing, no matter how justifiable, only brings more killing. So killing was forbidden. This is the Tulkun Way."''
2	-->--'''Tonowari''', ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater''
3
4	->''"What you talk about is not justice. What you talk of is revenge. It never ends. [[spoiler:My boy is gone.]] ''(in Spanish)'' You gangsters and your "justice." You're all the same."''
5	-->-- '''Manuel Varga''', ''Series/BetterCallSaul''
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7	->''"And the hatred planted in those you leave alive will pass from one generation to the next until this world is engulfed in a war the cause of which none of those fighting will remember. It will never end, don't you see that? Hate only breeds hate and the Imperium cannot be built upon such bloody foundations."''
8	-->-- '''Primarch Rogal Dorn''', speaking to Konrad Curze, ''Literature/HorusHeresy''
9
10	->''"Oberyn wanted vengeance for Elia. Now the three of you want vengeance for him. I have four daughters, I remind you. Your sisters. My Elia is fourteen, almost a woman. Obella is twelve, on the brink of maidenhood. They worship you, as Dorea and Loreza worship them. If you should die, must El and Obella seek vengeance for you, then Dorea and Loree for them? Is that how it goes, round and round forever? I ask again, where does it end?"''
11	-->-- '''Ellaria Sand''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
12
13	->''"It all goes back and back, to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads."''
14	-->-- '''Tyrion Lannister''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
15
16	->''Before setting out on the path of revenge, first dig two graves.''
17	-->-- '''Chinese proverb'''
18
19	->''All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.''
20	-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'' (King James Version), '''Matthew 26:52'''
21
22	->"Isaac was my friend!" he cried, he begged them in his fear\
23	But centuries of hatred have ears that cannot hear\
24	An eye for an eye was all that filled their minds\
25	And another eye for another eye, 'til everyone is blind
26	-->-- '''Tommy Sands''', ''There Were Roses"
27
28	->''"Revenge is like a ghost. Its thirst cannot be quenched... until the last man standing has fallen."''
29	-->-- '''Vladimir Makarov''', ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare2''
30
31	->X: For every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance. This is the one law of animated cartoon motion that also applies to the physical world at large. For that reason, we need the relief of watching it happen [[TheChewToy to a duck instead]].
32	-->-- '''[[http://web.mit.edu/jcb/humor/cartoon-physics The Laws of Cartoon Physics]]'''
33
34	->''"Revenge is never good, it kills the soul and then poisons it too.''"
35	-->-- '''Don Ramon''', ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho''
36
37	->[[RightMakesMight Justice belongs to those who claim it]], but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion.
38	-->-- '''Gowachin aphorism''', ''Literature/ConSentiency ''
39
40	->''"Maybe it had to be done... but vengeance begets vengeance!"''
41	-->-- '''Travis Touchdown''', ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''
42
43	->''"I said I'd avenge you killing my brother, didn't I? Well, who's been a brother to you? Travis... don't think you can kill without suffering consequences. To kill someone is not simply to end their life...one must risk their entire being to destroy another's. Up until now, you've had it easy...I've taken the curse you gave me, the shackles of revenge, and I'm throwing them back on you! Now, it's '''your''' turn to be burdened with another's death! It has destroyed me, and it will destroy you, too! '''THIS IS THE ULTIMATE VENGEANCE!'''"''
44	-->-- '''Skelter Helter''', ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle''
45
46	->''"Did you honestly think you could take so many lives and never suffer retribution? Have you never even seen a kung-fu movie, spy flick or western? Shakespeare, for God's sake! Not only did you murder my father, but my two brothers as well! That is why I took your best friend's life. Make sense, Travis? It's called poetic justice."''
47	-->-- '''Jasper Batt Jr.''', ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle''
48
49	->''And in this mass-produced savagery, one truth is constant. With each shattered life, the same vow is uttered: "I will have revenge." And no assassin can ever walk away from that. He must draw his beam and stand against the madness.''
50	-->-- '''Opening Narration''', ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle''
51
52	->''"[[ArcWords This has happened before and it will happen again.]]"''
53	-->-- ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''
54
55	->''"[[ArcWords When you hurt people, they hurt you back.]]"''
56	-->-- ''Manga/ShamanKing''
57
58	->''"Make her pay"''
59	-->-- Minor ArcWords from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
60
61	->'''Superman:''' We're not talking about the government; we're talking about a shadow cabinet that's taken it upon themselves to eliminate us! They came after us, we have to hit them back hard!\
62	'''The Flash:''' Grammy Flash used to say that the trouble with "an eye for an eye" is that everybody ends up blind.
63	-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E10Flashpoint Flashpoint]]"
64
65	->''"ENOUGH!! There will be no more bloodshed today. I see now why your Alliance and Horde cannot stop fighting. Every reprisal is itself an act of aggression, and every act of aggression triggers immediate reprisal."''
66	-->-- '''Taran Zhu''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Mists of Pandaria''
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68	->''"[[FantasticRacism Humans rejected your father and taught him to hate]]... [[spoiler:then he destroyed me]] and I was filled with hatred as well! It's a vicious cycle that never ends, Nadira!"''
69	-->-- '''Fraxx''', ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce''
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71	->'''Obi-Wan Kenobi''': (''about Melida/Daan'') There are so many dead. But there's no clear reason why they fight. Battle follows battle, each one conducted to avenge the one before. What is the real dispute?
72	->'''Qui-Gon Jinn''': Perhaps they have forgotten it. The hatred is bred in their bones. Now they fight over meters of territory, or to avenge a wrong that happened a hundred years before.
73	-->-- ''Literature/JediApprentice'', "The Defenders of the Dead"
74
75	->''When our guard is down, I think we'll both agree\
76	That violence breeds violence''
77	-->-- "It Has To Be This Way", ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
78
79	->'''Kevin''': And the really contagious memes can be even worse. For example: revenge. A guy sees his countrymen killed by terrorism, so he becomes a terrorist and retaliates... It's an infinite loop.\
80	'''Raiden''': I think it's the same thing with {{child soldiers}}. Kid's parents are killed by other kids, so they join the war next and start killing other people's parents. There's gotta be a way to break the cycle, though.
81	-->-- ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
82
83	->The Soviet Socialist Republic of Grzkjistan was a remote, harsh, mountainous, extremely tribal nation whose economy was based primarily on revenge. The Grzkjistanis spent their adult lives thinking up and carrying out elaborate plots to kill and maim each other in connection with bitter, centuries-old grudges, many of them [[BestialityIsDepraved involving goats]].
84	-->-- ''Literature/BigTrouble''
85
86	->''"You just want cruelty to beget cruelty. You're not superior to people who were cruel to you. You're just a whole bunch of new cruel people. A whole bunch of new cruel people, being cruel to some other people, who'll end up being cruel to you. The only way anyone can live in peace is if they're prepared to forgive. Why don't you break the cycle?"''
87	-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho''
88
89	->''"You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit."''
90	-->-- '''Edward Said'''
91
92	->''"Vengeance has consumed you. It's consuming them. I am done letting it consume me."''
93	-->-- '''T'Challa/Black Panther''' personally defying the trope, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''
94
95	->''But beware\
96	For when you quench your blood thirst\
97	Others will seek their vengeance on you\
98	And they won't rest until you're dead''
99	-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]]''', "Murmaider"
100
101	->''"Blood leads only to blood, and violence begets violence. Nothing more. Revenge is simply another name for murder."''
102	-->-- '''Deghinsea''', ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance''
103
104	->''"Governor, somewhere along the line of history, this bloody chain-reaction has got to stop. A destroys B...B destroys C...C destroys A and is destroyed by D, who destroys E...and before anyone knows where they are there'll be nobody left to know anything...anywhere."''
105	-->-- '''Mendez''', ''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes''
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107	->''"... I was dragged into that twisted world and I lost my family!... [[HypocrisyNod I realized I was a walking contradiction. Now I am doing the same things a terrorist does.]] Instead of cutting the chains of violence, I made the choice to fight back. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Because I believe that in order to prevent such tragedies from happening again the world needs to change from its very foundations...]] I'll accept my punishment for not stopping the killing... after I've changed the world."''
108	-->-- '''Lockon Stratos''', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''
109
110	->'''Tyrion''': How long does it go on?\
111	'''Cersei''': Until we've dealt with all our enemies.\
112	'''Tyrion''': Every time we deal with an enemy, we create two more.\
113	'''Cersei''': Then I suppose it will go on for quite a long time.
114	-->-- ''Series/GameOfThrones''
115
116	->''"The war between Heaven and Hell is an ever-turning wheel of vengeance. Any atrocity you could name was committed in the name of avenging some previous act. The wheel won't stop turning until either one side is [[FinalSolution wiped out completely]], or [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction our mutual annihilation]].\
117	It's like trying to use blood to clean up blood."''
118	-->-- '''Lakritz''', ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned''
119
120	->'''Adam:''' Fleury. Tell me what you whispered to Janet, in the briefing, to get her to stop crying about Fran, you know, before all this, before we even got airborne. What'd you say to her?\
121	'''Aunt:''' Tell me, what did your grandfather whisper in your ear before he died?\
122	'''Adam:''' You remember?\
123	'''Fleury:''' I told her we were gonna kill 'em all.\
124	'''Grandson:''' "Don't fear them, my child. We are going to kill them all."
125	-->-- ''Film/TheKingdom2007''
126
127	->''"And? \
128	If we win our independence?\
129	Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?\
130	Or will the blood we shed begin an endless cycle \
131	Of vengeance and death with no defendants?''
132	-->-- ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', "My Shot"
133
134	->''"You reap what you sow, Artyom. Force answers force. War breeds war. And death only brings death. To break this vicious circle one must do more than just act without any thought or doubt."''
135	-->-- '''Khan''', ''VideoGame/Metro2033''
136
137	->'''Brooklyn''': ''[looking upon shattered remains of humans]'' It's like the massacre at Castle Wyvern.\
138	'''Goliath''': Has Demona learned nothing?! Every life is precious.\
139	'''Brooklyn''': One of these could be Elisa.\
140	'''Goliath''': Never! We will put an end to Demona's evil once and for all.\
141	'''Weird Sisters''': Yes, she must be stopped, but remember your own words, Goliath. Every life is precious. Take care not to become what you fight against. Vengeance begets nothing but a vicious cycle of further vengeance.
142	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', "City of Stone, Part Two"
143
144	->''"One guy's killed for killing another and then he's killed for killing him. How is that kind of twisted thinking ever gonna bring us peace? Well?"''
145	-->-- '''Cagalli Yula Athha,''' ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED''
146
147	->''"It's interesting how violence begets violence, don't you think?"''
148	-->-- '''Mayrikafsa''', ''Literature/RedMoonRisingHolt''
149
150	->''Tell me why break trust, why turn the past to dust\
151	Seeking solace in the abyss\
152	Tell me why create, a circle none can break\
153	Why must you let go, the life you were bestowed\
154	This I fear I'll never know\
155	Never know''
156	-->-- '''Dragonsong''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV: Heavensward''
157
158	->'''Human Twilight Sparkle''': L-Leave my friends alone!\
159	'''Gilda''': Pisses you off, doesn't it? Seeing your comrades bleed? Pisses me off too. Want to guess how many comrades I've seen bleed and die fighting you Quincy!? Payback is a ''bitch'' and so am I.
160	-->-- ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls''
161
162	->''"[[NotSoDifferentRemark We're both just ordinary men who have been driven to seek vengeance in the name of justice.]] And if one comes to call vengeance 'justice', such justice will only breed further vengeance... and trigger a vicious cycle of hatred."''
163	-->-- '''Pain''', ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''
164
165	->''"Bloodshed gives way to more bloodshed. Hatred breeds more hatred. Until all of the violence soaks into the land, carving rivers of blood. And no matter how many times it happens, they never learn. Humans are made up of violent, miserable fools."''
166	-->-- '''Lust''', ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''
167
168	->'''Briseis''': You've lost your cousin. Now you've taken mine. When does it end?\
169	'''Achilles''': It never ends.
170	-->-- ''Film/{{Troy}}''
171
172	->'''Hiccup:''' Look, all I'm saying is, if anyone deserves [revenge], Viggo does. And we're the only ones that can exact it.\
173	'''Stoick:''' Perhaps. But what comes after that? Viggo's revenge? Then our revenge on his revenge? It's pointless, Hiccup. Trust me. I know.
174	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'', "[[Recap/DragonsRidersOfBerkS6E7TheLongestDay The Longest Day]]"
175
176	->''No, I don't want a battle from beginning to end\
177	I don't want a cycle of recycled revenge\
178	I don't wanna follow [[TitleDrop Death and all of his friends]]''
179	-->-- "Death and All His Friends", ''Music/{{Coldplay}}''
180
181	->''"Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy, angry and alone. Laid out in front of him, the bad path, I saw it. And the path was a circle, round and round. [[TemporalSuicide So I changed it.]]"''
182	-->-- '''Young Joe''', ''Film/{{Looper}}''
183
184	->'''Quackity:''' When seeking revenge, it's quite easy to get caught up in the possible rewards even before you obtain them. But if revenge is failed, you ''will'' pay the price. That's why you have to know the objective of your revenge, and then you've gotta plan it out in your head, and then you gotta organize a buncha people to do the planning–\
185	'''Slime:''' [[ArmourPiercingQuestion Is it worth it]]?\
186	'''Quackity:''' ...what?\
187	'''Slime:''' I've been watching for a long time... One person lashes out, then the other does... until they're both gone. From what I've seen, it feels like people don't ''stop'' taking that revenge. Is it ever worth it?\
188	''[{{Beat}}]''\
189	'''Quackity:''' ...[[LittleNo no]]. No, it's not.
190	-->-- ''WebVideo/DreamSMP''
191
192	->'''Techno:''' The thing is, Tubbo, y'know, you started a country, then I spawned Withers in it, then you dropped an anvil on my head, then I blew up your country, and all of these experiences have really taught me a valuable lesson about the cyclical nature of revenge. I mean... If we just keep– If we just keep, uh, fighting the people who– who wronged us first, it's just gonna be a neverending–\
193	'''Tubbo:''' It's just gonna be an endless loop! You're so wise!\
194	'''Techno:''' An endless cycle of revenge, until there's nothing left.\
195	'''Tubbo:''' ...I am alright to get revenge now, right? 'Cause I'm really–\
196	'''Techno:''' Yeah, that– that being said, LET'S GO KILL ERET, YEAAAAH!
197	-->-- ''WebVideo/DreamSMP''
198
199	->'''G'Kar:''' The Centauri started it!\
200	'''Kosh (appearing as G'Kar's father):''' And will you continue? Until there are no more Narns and no more Centauri? If both sides are dead, no one will care which side deserves the blame. It no longer matters who started it, G'Kar. It only matters who is suffering.
201	-->-- ''Series/BabylonFive''
202
203	->''Elizabeth spent all the days before the burial in ceaseless prayer. On her husband's tombstone she wrote: 'Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.' She understood the words of the Gospels heart and soul, and on the eve of the funeral she demanded to be taken to the prison where Kalyayev was being held. Brought into his cell, she asked, "Why did you kill my husband?"\
204	"I killed Sergei Alexandrovich because he was a weapon of tyranny. I was taking revenge for the people."\
205	"Do not listen to your pride. Repent, and I will beg the Sovereign for your life. I will ask him for you. I myself have already forgiven you."\
206	On the eve of revolution, she had already found a way out; forgiveness! Forgive through the impossible pain and blood -- and thereby stop it then, at the beginning -- this bloody wheel. By her example, poor Ella appealed to society, calling upon the people to live in Christian faith.\
207	"No!" replied Kalyayev. "I do not repent. I must die for my deed and I will. My death will be more useful to my cause than that of Sergei Alexandrovich."\
208	Kalyayev was sentenced to death.''
209	-->-- '''The Last Tsar'''
210
211	->''"Hi, you're Rick right? I'm Negan... and I do not appreciate you killing my men. Also when I sent my people to kill your people for killing my people, you killed more of my people. Not cool, not cool."''
212	-->-- '''Negan''', ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010''
213
214	->''"The world cannot render judgements based on a desire for revenge. That will only lead to a [[TitleDrop cycle of revenge]], as well as the destruction of order and civilized society."''
215	-->-- '''Chevreuse''', ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact''
216
217	->''"I gotta be honest with you. If someone was to shoot me, kill me right now, my last words wouldn't be 'Peace'...they'd be 'Get those motherfuckers'."''
218	-->-- '''[[Music/BodyCount Ice T]]''', "This Is Why We Ride"
219
220	->'''Nick''': Where are you, you bastard?\
221	'''Billy''': You want to send me a reward for finding that wallet of yours?\
222	'''Nick''': You tell me where the fuck you are, right now!\
223	'''Billy''': No, I'll tell you where the fuck you are. You're in my end of the fucking sewer, buddy. I say who lives. I say who dies. Now you better get that through your fucking skull, because there's no more warnings. I'm coming for some fucking family time.\
224	'''Nick''': No. You listen to me. You go near my family, and I will cut out your goddamn guts like I did your fucking friend. Do you hear me?\
225	'''Billy''': He wasn't my friend. He was my brother. And now I'm coming for the rest of your family. You just bought them a [[TitleDrop death sentence]], motherfucker.
226	-->-- ''Film/DeathSentence''
227
228	->'''Murad''': What are you waiting for?\
229	'''Bryan''': You have other sons?\
230	'''Murad''': Two.\
231	'''Bryan''': And if I kill you, they will come and seek revenge?\
232	'''Murad''': They will for sure.\
233	'''Bryan''': And I will kill them too. You can change that. You can go home, live your life, enjoy your sons, your grandsons.\
234	'''Murad''': And my other son, Marko, the son you killed... am I just supposed to forget it?\
235	'''Bryan''': No, you'll just have to live with it. Like the parents of all those kidnapped girls. Or you can die here.
236	-->-- ''[[Film/{{Taken}} Taken 2]]''
237
238	->''"We change. We have to. Or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles."''
239	-->-- '''James T Kirk''' ''Film/StarTrekBeyond''
240
241	->''"Somewhere out there was the Ankh-Morpork army. And somewhere waiting was the Klatchian army. And thousands of men who might have quite liked one another had they met socially would thunder toward one another and start killing, and after that first rush you had all the excuses you needed to do it again and again."''
242	-->-- ''Literature/{{Jingo}}''
243
244	->''"When the desire to kill and burn takes hold and reason is forgotten, we will not even remember what began the war in the first place."''
245	-->-- '''Rhaenys Targaryen''' ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon''

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