Quotes About Retaliation

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

Society's revenge matched its fright.

When Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) found out who had published a nasty pamphlet about her, she had the authors' right hands cut off. Now there's an idea! (Or not.) For the moment, let's say that a Mean Girl is treating you

Hell hath no fury like a politican scorned.

If you had not done such a shabby thing to me I would not have had you kidnapped.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

Frankly, Pedro Almodóvar's recent box office hit, Volver, is the first movie I've seen in which a young woman's retaliation against sexual violence doesn't ultimately boomerang around to destroy her

She settled for snatching up the apple strudel still warm in its tinfoil shroud and throwing it at him. 'I'll give you darkness, you sanctimonious fucker!

You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.

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).

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

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.

I'm not gong to kill you," said Locke I'm going to play a little game I like to call 'Scream in pain until you answer my fucking questions.

I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began.

They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them

You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.

How do you maybe hit someone?" Michael drawled. "Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.

A feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills him; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in -- and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud. But it's kind of slow, and takes a long time.

Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll —

So I hove a brick through his window...

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