Vindication Quotes

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I’ve lived to see my lost causes found.”
― Pauli Murray

“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional democracy as they were on employing Black culture to 'vindicate' Black people.”
― Aberjhani, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

“The vindication we ask is less vengeance than validation: to forgive those who sin against us is first to have acknowledged their sin.”
― Kim Coleman Healy, From Beholding to Becoming: Praying Through the Life of Christ

“With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“It is better to be broke with a belief in God than rich trying to navigate things on your own. God's favor will provide every single time. He will not leave you. He will vindicate you and promote you if you trust Him.”
― Germany Kent

“.. when she looked at Nate she saw a kid who’d been shoved into lockers during high school. And now he wanted the last laugh, taking every opportunity to throw his (nerdy) weight around. He’d bought a hockey team, and he was going to make the jocks do his bidding, at least until the day he realized that vindication wasn’t everything in life.”
― Sarina Bowen, Rookie Move

“For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn’t work out—perhaps especially when it doesn’t work out—promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life. And though subsequent years might alter this view, until some of us give up on it altogether, when love first strikes, there’s nothing like it, is there? Agreed?”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Some shoot for the stars. I shoot for the transdimensional multiverse. That’s me. I take things too far, too fast. I set my personal bar high. I didn’t come to try in this world. I came to conquer this world – and the next”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen, How Dad Found Himself in the Padded Room: A Bipolar Father's Gift For The World

“Someone may have put you at a disadvantage, but don't worry. Keep calm and carry on because in due time you will be vindicated.”
― Germany Kent

“Another vindication I had is the fact that I believed the Christian message and the gospel of the kingdom is good enough to fix the world’s problems”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The definition of justice swirled and faded into exceptions, loopholes, and vengeance under the mask of vindication.”
― Irene Daniels, Blood of Dragons

“Even if not immediately, love will bring us justice, peace, and vindication, and when we open our eyes to the truth that love is wider than the river of grief, we can move toward the mirror and recognize ourselves again.”
― Amber C. Haines and Seth Haines

“Vindication is mine says the Author.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player