Winston Churchill and Samuel Johnson Revenge
Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. Do you agree?
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.’
Samuel Johnson
Revenge is a word that changes futures, hopes, and dreams, a nasty, demeaning, degrading, and downright evil! Many people say that it is a dish best served cold, but I think that it is best served any way you want! Taking revenge is a bitter sweet thing. The Old Testament "an eye for an eye" (cf. Exodus 21:24) validates the concept of proportionate revenge and according to me if you are taking revenge, at least burst that eye properly.
Revenge indeed is a lot more satisfying when least expected or long feared. The goal of revenge usually consists of forcing the perceived offender to suffer the same or greater pain than that which was originally inflicted. This saying itself suggests that if someone does something bad to us, it is better to pay them back later in time, not immediately for it is better to forestall vengeance until wisdom can reassert itself.
The primitive sense of the just starts from the notion that a human life is a vulnerable thing, one that can be invaded, wounded and violated by another’s act in many ways. For this penetration, the only remedy that seems appropriate is a counter invasion, strictly proportional to the original encroachment. We all live with life’s bitter scars; wounds too deep to mention. Most of us use traditional ways to cope, such as legal recourse; forgiveness and reconciliation while others main focal point is retaliation, as Sir Winston Spencer Churchill quoted, ‘Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.’
I always thought that people should get what they deserve, whether it be a grade, a smile, a hug or in some cases, revenge. When we are in high school there seems to be someone always trying to get us in trouble, or say things that would make us look bad. The fact that we never seem to do anything to them often makes us mad.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.’
Samuel Johnson
Revenge is a word that changes futures, hopes, and dreams, a nasty, demeaning, degrading, and downright evil! Many people say that it is a dish best served cold, but I think that it is best served any way you want! Taking revenge is a bitter sweet thing. The Old Testament "an eye for an eye" (cf. Exodus 21:24) validates the concept of proportionate revenge and according to me if you are taking revenge, at least burst that eye properly.
Revenge indeed is a lot more satisfying when least expected or long feared. The goal of revenge usually consists of forcing the perceived offender to suffer the same or greater pain than that which was originally inflicted. This saying itself suggests that if someone does something bad to us, it is better to pay them back later in time, not immediately for it is better to forestall vengeance until wisdom can reassert itself.
The primitive sense of the just starts from the notion that a human life is a vulnerable thing, one that can be invaded, wounded and violated by another’s act in many ways. For this penetration, the only remedy that seems appropriate is a counter invasion, strictly proportional to the original encroachment. We all live with life’s bitter scars; wounds too deep to mention. Most of us use traditional ways to cope, such as legal recourse; forgiveness and reconciliation while others main focal point is retaliation, as Sir Winston Spencer Churchill quoted, ‘Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.’
I always thought that people should get what they deserve, whether it be a grade, a smile, a hug or in some cases, revenge. When we are in high school there seems to be someone always trying to get us in trouble, or say things that would make us look bad. The fact that we never seem to do anything to them often makes us mad.