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Revenge is defined as committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real [1] or perceived. [2] Vengeful forms of justice, such as primitive justice or retributive justice , are often differentiated from more formal and refined forms of justice such as distributive justice or restorative justice .
In Albert Bettannier's La Tache Noire (The Black Stain, 1887) French students are taught about the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, taken by Germany in 1871.. Revanchism (French: revanchisme, from revanche, "revenge") is the political manifestation of the will to reverse the territorial losses which are incurred by a country, frequently after a war or after a social movement.
Resentment (also called ranklement or bitterness) is a complex, multilayered emotion [1] that has been described as a mixture of disappointment, disgust and anger. [2] Other psychologists consider it a mood [3] or as a secondary emotion (including cognitive elements) that can be elicited in the face of insult or injury.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, a first-person shooter video game with Nazis as the enemy, was given the advertising tagline "Make America Nazi-Free Again", which some people objected to as anti-Trump, though a company executive said the game was not a "social critique on 2017 America."
"Free speech does not mean you can go out and lie about people, or call people names, or call people 'scum.' Terminiello's speech that night was nothing but abuse, misstatements, vilification, and ...
Ressentiment as a concept gained popularity with Friedrich Nietzsche's writings. Walter Kaufmann ascribes his use of the term in part to the absence of a proper equivalent term in the German language, contending that this absence alone "would be sufficient excuse for Nietzsche", if not for a translator. [2]
“I searched all over. I just couldn’t do it,” he added. “I couldn’t. I really tried hard. I couldn’t find anyone smarter.” “We settled on this guy,” Trump quipped, pointing to ...
The modern meaning of temperance has evolved since its first usage. In Latin, tempero means restraint (from force or anger), but also more broadly the proper balancing or mixing (particularly, of temperature, or compounds). Hence the phrase "to temper a sword", meaning the heating and cooling process of forging a metal blade.