Quotes about Retaliation
Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
- Acts 7:28
When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
- 1 Peter 2:23
Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.
- Revelation 18:6
to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.
- Herman Melville
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
- Booker T. Washington
recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless.
- Philip Yancey
There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.
- Philip Yancey
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
- JRR Tolkien
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)
- Lyndon B. Johnson
two types of stuffer reactions: stuffers who build barriers and stuffers who collect retaliation rocks.
- Lysa TerKeurst
But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to?
- John Milton