Quotes About Retaliation

To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.

There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

I'm gonna put that gun as far up his ass as it'll go, then I'm just gonna keep loadin' and reloadin' till my arms get tired.

Well, hell, use a ball bat. And strike first, from behind. Don't give him a chance to take it away from you. You don't want a fight, you want revenge." He grinned a little. "When you just want a fight you can always go home to your wife.

Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be… avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Nemo me impune lacessit [No one provokes me with impunity].

he was going to kick someone down a flight of stairs, of course it would be a paedophile. It reminded me of his behaviour when we had visited Raymond Clunes.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

Punch me in the face, I'll punch you twice as hard.

Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

We will never forgive and we will never forget.

When the means of great violence are widespread, nothing is more dangerous to the powerful than that they create outrage and injustice, for outrage and injustice will certainly ignite retaliation in kind. — BuSab Manual

It could be a work of art among vendettas

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Storms beget storms. Rage begets rage. Revenge begets revenge. Wars beget wars.

who hate the Harkonnens so much they'll burn a chair in which a Harkonnen has sat, salt the ground over which a Harkonnen has walked.

The Atreides off-planet retaliation system would be joined by overwhelming force, and no need to summon any of them. Fear would do the calling. Salusa Secundus and its allies would vanish in hot clouds.

Never to forgive—never to forget

Violence builds more violence and the pendulum swings until the violent ones are shattered.