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Quotes About Retaliation

The fact that any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetary bases of fifty or more other Families causes some nervousness, true. But all of us possess precautionary plans for devastating retaliation. Guild and Landsraad contain the keys which hold this force in check. No, my concern goes to the development of humans as special weapons. Here is a virtually unlimited field which a few powers are developing.
~ Frank Herbert
The girls all know the score. No escape. No surrender. No mercy. We got to kill every last rat bastard one of them, every last one. Not for revenge. Not because they deserve it. not because it'll make the world a better place. We need a heap of bloody bodies so when the mob boss, Wallenquist, looks over his charts of profits and losses, he'll see what it cost him to mess with the girls of Old Town.
~ Frank Miller
I'll cut him in two—with the whip," he shouted. "I will, I will, I say I will, for a fact. He wouldn't fight, hey? I'll give um all the fight he wants, nasty, mangy cur. If he won't fight he won't eat. I'm going to get the butcher's bull pup and I'll put um both in a bag and shake um up. I will, for a fact, and I guess Alec will fight. Come along, Mister Grannis," and he took the old Englishman away.
~ Frank Norris
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.
~ Tippi Hedren
As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
~ Zubin Mehta
So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.
~ James Stockdale
In the last 13 years, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when compared to our two world wars, Korea, and Vietnam, have not resulted in staggering numbers of Americans killed. But the deaths of non-Americans as a consequence of our sanctions, invasions, and bombings are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. We may not be counting, but the Muslim world is. Recipients of such violence and their families have long memories.
~ Ron Paul
THE ASHES ARE STILL WARM": THE SECOND HOLOCAUST, ISRAEL, AND THE MORALITY OF NUCLEAR RETALIATION
~ Ron Rosenbaum
I told you if you ever touched her again, I would kill you. Consider yourself dead.
~ Ronda Thompson
People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It's funny how, when you really want to say something bitchy and cutting to someone who's been bitchy to you, you can't think of anything till afterwards. When there's no real call for it, you come suddenly out with a piece of 9-carat bitchery that shakes even you.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
Ouça-me este conselho: em política, não se perdoa nem se esquece nada.
~ Machado de Assis
Any injury we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
~ Machiavelli, Niccolò
Stevie. He went up to the hotel and beat the living daylights out of Louis. He's lost three teeth and he has a broken jaw.
~ Maeve Binchy
I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his...
~ Malcolm X
It was not spite or retaliation that made Tara abandon Bim — it was the spider fear that lurked at the center of the web-world for Tara. Yet she did abandon Bim, it was true that she did.
~ Anita Desai
I'm rubber and you're glue, and whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.
~ Ann M. Martin
Revenge is a dish best served cold
~ Ann M. Martin
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
~ Samuel Johnson
Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
~ Sara Shepard
I was so mad, I reached into the drawer for her fake sushi eraser and put it in my pocket. Serves her right for being such a big, fat, Eggo-scarfing liar.
~ Sarah Darer Littman
I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized. Everyone in the room stared at him. I called him an asshole, too, said Locke. He didn't like that.
~ Scott Lynch
James stared at him for a moment, a brief moment, before his stonelike fist landed in Richard's gut. "Wrong answer. Try again.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Dr. Henry Templeton got the drop on me after I killed his grandfather before he was born. Apparently, that wasn't enough to stop the bastard.
~ John C. Wright