{"quotes":[{"text":"Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion is simple. The Semitic texts from Bronze Age Palestine of which Christianity is comprised still fit uncomfortably well with contemporary life. The Old Testament depicts a God capricious and cruel; blood sacrifice, vengeance, genocide; death and destruction et al. Would He not approve of Herr Hitler and the brutal, tribalistic crusade against Hebrews and non-Christian ‘untermensch?’One thing is inarguable. His church on Earth has produced some of the most vigorous and violent contribution to the European fascist cause.It is synergy. Man Created God, even if God Created Man; it all exists in the hubris and apotheosis of the narcissistic soul, and alas, all too many of the human herd are willing to follow the beastly trait of leadership. The idea of self-emancipation and advancement, with Europe under the jackboot of fascism, would be Quixotic to the point of mirthless lunacy.","author":"Daniel S. Fletcher","tags":["apotheosis","bonhoeffer","bronze-age-palestine","catholic-church","catholic-church-nazi-germany","catholic-fascism","christianity","church-hitler","church-right-wing","crusades","emancipation","extreme-right","fascism","fascism-and-the-church","franco","god","god-vengeance","hitler","italy","jackboot","jackboot-britain","mussolini","nazis-and-the-church","nietzsche","old-testament","old-testament-god","religion","religious","right-wing","spanish-civil-war","the-crusades","tribalistic","vatican","vatican-city","vengeance","vengeful","zealotry","zealots"],"id":4201,"author_id":"Daniel+S.+Fletcher"},{"text":"LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!","author":"Hayley Williams","tags":["begin","flames","game","hayley","hayley-williams","hurt","let","let-the-flames-begin","paramore","revenge","vengeance"],"id":6090,"author_id":"Hayley+Williams"},{"text":"Revenge loses sight of the end in the means, but it's end is not wholly bad - it wants the evil of the bad man to be to him what it is to everyone else. This is proved by the fact that the avenger wants the guilty party not merely to suffer, but to suffer at his hands, and to know it, and to know why. Hence the impulse to taunt the guilty man with his crime at the moment of taking vengeance: hence, too, such natural expressions as 'I wonder how he'd like it if the same thing were done to him' or 'I'll teach him'. For the same reason when we are going to abuse a man in words we say we are going to 'let him know what we think of him'.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["revenge","vengeance"],"id":9701,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!","author":"Alexandre Dumas","tags":["good","vengeance","wicked"],"id":10188,"author_id":"Alexandre+Dumas"},{"text":"That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ('Eveline's Visitant').","author":"Mary Elizabeth Braddon","tags":["curse","haunt","oath","revenge","vengeance"],"id":13062,"author_id":"Mary+Elizabeth+Braddon"},{"text":"One bad turn does not excuse another.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["getting-even","retaliation","revenge","richelle","richelle-goodrich","unkindness","vengeance"],"id":14105,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"The ecstasy of wrath is not enough for vengeance!","author":"anonyms","tags":["anger","vengeance"],"id":16320,"author_id":"anonyms"},{"text":"No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["computer","computer-hackers","computers","funny","geek","geek-humor","humor","humour","nerd","nerd-humor","nerds","revenge","vengeance"],"id":22303,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"For some offenses, there is only retribution.' Nora Hawks, 'One Woman's Vengeance.","author":"Dennis R. Miller","tags":["betrayal","retribution","revenge","vengeance"],"id":22566,"author_id":"Dennis+R.+Miller"},{"text":"And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,mauling at them, - like I care.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["acceptance","bear","bears","breath","breathing","caring","cupid","deciding","decision","decisions","deserve","deserving","despair","difference","different","erroneous","error","errors","good","helping","joy","mauling","mistake","mistakes","nerve","nerves","nothing","others","people","poem","poems","refusal","strange","stranger","strangers","stupid","tears","truth","vengeance","vengeful","waste","wasted","wasted-time","weeping"],"id":22661,"author_id":"Will+Advise"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":127,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}