Baseness Quote by Emile M. Cioran

The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge…

— Gilles Deleuze

Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary…

— Jo Nesbo

“If you think about it, the real reason we seek revenge is so that we can let go and recreate or restore balance in…

— Dr. Robert Anthony

The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.

— Ellen Hopkins

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

— Gilles Deleuze

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even…

— Naomie Harris

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

— Anonymous

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

— Charlotte Lennox

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

— Delphine de Girardin

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

— Anonymous