Quotes About Retaliation

First, I put his ass in jail," García said, "then I married his wife.

Revenge is such a tiresome business.

or there will be a reckoning!

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

Justice is revenge.

If Gail Kim gets in my business, I'll make sure there is no more Gail Kim.

Just Because You Have a Reason to Retaliate Does Not Mean You're Justified in Doing So

If he killed her I'm going to beat him bloody and eat him piece by piece, slowly, with steak sauce.

Revenge is a dish best served cold. I never used to understand that saying, but I think I finally get it.

Some crimes," I quote Ryodan stiffly, "are so personal, blood-vengeance belongs only to the one who suffered them.

Don't make it war, he said, and I won't. I don't have to. He already did.

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker! Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a lot of dick on the goddamn menu! Now grunt twice for yes! You through bitchin'?

We cannot win the war on terror with guns and bombs because everyone we kill is replaced by dozens more who seek revenge. The only answer is total, radical commitment to Jesus Christ.

the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

There will be killing till the score is paid.

Since the Indians were better woodsmen than the English and virtually impossible to track down, the method was to feign peaceful intentions, let them settle down and plant their corn wherever they chose, and then, just before harvest, fall upon them, killing as many as possible and burning the corn. . . . Within two or three years of the massacre the English had avenged the deaths of that day many times over.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act.

Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done them by man, beast or fate.

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done them by man, beast or fate.

He asked nothing better than to kill an Englishman. He had accounts to settle with the bastards.