Revenge
From July–December 1575, Oda Nobunaga attacked and took the castle, and after a 6 month siege he promised Nobutomo safety and his life if he ended holding out. However he reneged on his word and had Nobutomo and his wife executed by hanging upside down—a punishment usually reserved for traitors. Nobunga would eventually become Shogun or military ruler of all Japan.
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Famous quotes containing the word revenge:
“The retaliation is apt to be in monstrous disproportion to the supposed offense; for when in anybody was revenge in its exactions aught else but an inordinate usurer?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)