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Quotes About Retaliation

Ash falls back into the face of he that throws it.
~ Dwaine Mushimba
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
~ Margaret Atwood
Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got.
~ Jim Thompson
Revenge of the Giant Grill Man.
~ Joan Bauer
True story," Horse chimed in. "Fuck with us, we'll fuck you back. Harder. Always.
~ Joanna Wylde
Next time I'll rip your dick off," she muttered, eyes narrowing. Okay, so round two was definitely out for now. Noted.
~ Joanna Wylde
He gyrated his hips suggestively and the rest of the guys snickered. Horse turned fast, punching him in the stomach. Mohawk man doubled over but managed to stay standing as Horse grabbed my arm and jerked me out the door.
~ Joanna Wylde
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
Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge.
~ Anne McCaffrey
If someone burns out your eye I will take your socket and use it for an ashtray.
~ Anne Sexton
What happened to you? Did you finally annoy someone enough to have them beat the shit out of you?
~ Anne Stuart
and then I ripped his lungs out.
~ Anne Taintor
This time . . . It's personal.
~ Anonymous
If you love me I will promise I love you, if you are my mate I will die for you. But if somebody starts giving it me, I will give it back.
~ Noel Edmonds
If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.
~ Don Drysdale
Revenge proves its own executioner.
~ John Ford
Go back to hell where you came from, you old warthog
~ Flannery O'Connor
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated.
~ Russell Means
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
~ Albert Camus
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.
~ Coretta Scott King
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
~ James Larkin
The second guy always gets caught, and that's why you have to initiate it instead of retaliating.
~ Mike Daniels
Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.
~ Groucho Marx