Quotes about Retaliation
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.
- Michael Jordan
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
- Timothy Keller
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
- Frank Herbert
Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is lo
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
- Genesis 4:23
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- Genesis 34:25
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
- Genesis 34:26
But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
- Exodus 21:23
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- Exodus 21:24
burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.
- Exodus 21:25