Desire Quote by Iris Murdoch

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the…

— Erich Fromm

Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox…

— Charles Caleb Colton

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a…

— Robert Sheaffer

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

— Gilles Deleuze

In the end there is no greater motivation than revenge.

— Anonymous

How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before…

— St. Catherine of Siena

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

— Rudy Giuliani

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

— Richard Steele

If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice...…

— Thucydides

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

— Ally Carter

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames