Joe Hart

I will never go into a game aggressive because I will cost my team the victory if I am reckless. If I have got a personal vendetta with someone, or I don't like the way someone has done something to me in the game, I am just going to have to get over it.

English Athlete

Joseph Fiennes

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

British Actor

Matthew Heineman

Cartel Land' explores what happens when - in a Mexican society without order, law or security - vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world.

Algerian Director

Greg Olsen

My approach every game really tries to stay the same. I try not to make it about me. I try not to make it about my personal vendettas.

American Football Player

Gina Miller

I didn't realise how much of a personal vendetta Dominic Cummings had against the establishment.

Guyanese Activist

Carl Icahn

When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.

American Businessman

Mamata Banerjee

I don't have any personal agenda or vendetta against any individual, even Narendra Modi.

Indian Politician

Amarinder Singh

Let me say at the outset, there would be no space for vendetta politics in Punjab.

Ahmed Ben Bella

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Algerian Politician

Uddhav Thackeray

Vendetta suggests a prolonged and unresolved conflict, often spanning years.

Long-term Conflict

A vendetta is more intense than a typical argument; it involves deep hostility.

Beyond Disagreement

In some cultures, vendettas are part of historical feuds and can influence social relations.

Cultural Historical Context

A vendetta often involves a personal mission of revenge, typically by one individual.

Personal Revenge

Vendetta implies a deep-seated resentment, not just a momentary desire for revenge.

Deep Resentment

A vendetta may not lead to actual revenge acts but can be a sustained grudge.

Not Always Actionable

 Yet the world has never been more democratic than it has been in the past decade, with two-thirds of the world's people living in democracies. Homicide rates plunge whenever anarchy and the code of vendetta are replaced by the rule of law. It happened when feudal Europe was brought under the control of centralized kingdoms,

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 while "V for Vendetta" and "The Handmaid's Tale" warned how easily our rights could disappear in a crisis. And today's dystopian fiction continues to reflect modern anxieties about inequality, climate change, government power, and global epidemics.