Atonement Quote by Maximilien Robespierre

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The…

— Jonathan Sacks

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of…

— Barbara Deming

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from…

— Victor Hugo

Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it…

— H. Beam Piper

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

— Penn Jillette

“Revenge is a lie we fabricate to ease our consciences. But like two negatives can never equal a positive, two wrong deeds cannot make…

— Caroline George

It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life.…

— Henry B. Eyring

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their…

— Harlan Ellison

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a…

— Bernard Crick

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Vengeance is a human right.

— Gaspar Noe