Quotes about Retaliation
Where there is much pride or much vanity, there will also be much revengefulness. - On Psychology
- Arthur Schopenhauer
This means that to be considered a child of the Father in heaven by Jesus, one had to be willing to break the OT commands to retaliate.
- Gregory Boyd
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
- Alain de Botton
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
- Desmond Tutu
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?
- Lewis Carroll
Jesus, the Son of God, "did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
- Anne Graham Lotz
The cycle of pain stopped when she chose to pray rather than retaliate.
- Anne Graham Lotz
It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.
- Paul Johnson
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
- Anonymous
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
- Anonymous
Jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- Anonymous