Art of war Quote by Judith Butler

In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics,…

— Chris Hedges

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.

— Wes Fesler

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain…

— Mark Twain

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a…

— John Boyd Orr

“No matter how inflexibly the world was clamoring for war and heroism, honor and other outmoded ideals, no matter how remote and unlikely every…

— Hermann Hesse

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

— Juvenal

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we…

— Roland Barthes

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well.

— Jeaniene Frost

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

— Mardy Grothe