Quotes about Retaliation

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself

a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Instead of striking back, which would be both justifiable and equal retribution and a part of Moses' "no mercy" law, Jesus creates an almost laughable scene of grace: "turn to them the other cheek also." This is how Jesus did respond (Matt 26:67).

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals

We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.