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Quotes About Retaliation

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.
~ Sue Grafton
An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.
~ Moshe Sharett
The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.
~ Jimmie Walker
Ruining someone else's life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.
~ Tomi Lahren
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
~ Euripides, Medea
She spent a few passive years simply waiting for annoying people around her to die, like a horse who occasionally flicks its tail at a fly. To experience the other side of the coin, she also spent some years practicing aggressive revenge against those who wronged her, and found the passive life more enjoyable.
~ Mur Lafferty
If you throw a rotten orange into someone's face, you can bet the orange will sooner or later come flying back.
~ Nancy Farmer
they rode out, careful to stay off the trail in case the bluecoats took their revenge against any Indians they could find. As
~ Nancy Morse
because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You might have been paid back enough to suit you I said, but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.
~ Charlaine Harris
If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.
~ Tom Sizemore
There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.
~ Ehud Olmert
Burning for burning; wound for wound: strife for strife.
~ Thomas Hardy
It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
~ Thomas Harris
she shot him in the face as he slid down the door facing and she shot him in the face as he sat on the floor and she ran to him and shot him twice in the face as he sprawled against the wall, scalp down to his chin and his hair on fire.
~ Thomas Harris
It occurred to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
~ Thomas Harris
As a young Marxist in college during the 1950s heyday of the anti-Communist crusade led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, I had more freedom to express my views in class, without fear of retaliation, than conservative students have on many campuses today.
~ Thomas Sowell
Those who founded the United States of America, and wrote the Constitution, saw property rights as essential for safeguarding all other rights. The right to free speech, for example, would be meaningless if criticisms of the authorities could lead to whatever you owned being seized in retaliation.
~ Thomas Sowell
Existe a vingança e existe a justiça. Às vezes as duas são uma só.
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Ben locked his eyes on mine for a long moment. Then, "How?" "How do you think?" I smiled, then slapped him full across the face
~ Kathy Reichs
Monk made hairy fists of rage. "I'll wring their red necks for them. I'll twist their ears off, and make them eat them with onions." "Time enough for that later," fumed Pat, adding, "Let's bid our fond adieus, and be on our unmerry way.
~ Kenneth Robeson
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
~ byron lord iii
Which leads me to ask...what exactly are you going to do when we get there?" I thought about it. "Rip Josh's nuggets off and feed them to his hamster?
~ Gemma Halliday
Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.
~ Gena Showalter