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Quotes About Retaliation

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
~ Sybille Bedford
One insult pocketed soon produces another.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.
~ Patrick J. Buchanan
A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies.
~ Steven Magee
Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.
~ Raheel Farooq
I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.
~ Archilochus
Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
~ Victor Hugo
Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt.
~ T.J. Stiles
Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.
~ Hammurabi
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
~ Jeremy Taylor
I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
~ Malcolm X
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Well, land sakes! Hiro says. Lookee here! He whips his blade sideways, cutting off both of the businessman's forearms, causing the sword to clatter onto the floor. Better fire up the ol' barbeque, Jemima! Hiro continues, whipping the sword around sideways, cutting the businessman's body in half just above the navel. Then he leans down so he's looking right into the businessman's face. Didn't anyone tell you, he says, losing the dialect, that I was a hacker? Then he hacks the guy's head off.
~ Neal Stephenson
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries; of more serious ones they cannot, therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries; of more serious ones they cannot, therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Así pues, la ofensa que se les infiera ha de ser tal que les inhabilite para vengarse.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
a los hombres hay que conquistarlos o eliminarlos, porque si se vengan de las ofensas leves, de las graves no pueden; así que la ofensa que se haga al hombre debe ser tal, que le resulte imposible vengarse.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Przeto gdy krzywdzi siÄ™ czÅ'owieka, nale?y czyni? to w ten sposób, aby nie trzeba byÅ'o obawia? siÄ™ zemsty
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible back.
~ Twiggy
There's a famous saying: 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.' I want to change it to 'Hell hath no fury like a nation scorned.'
~ Adnan Sami
Keep making fun of my name and every time you order a drink, I'm going to put something in it you won't like
~ Christine Feehan