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Quotes About Retaliation

You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Why do you want to tie them up?" inquired Farid. "Why not kill them? That's what they were going to do to us!
~ Cornelia Funke
Ah, love. What a perfect tool of revenge.
~ Cornelia Funke
Blood just draws more blood.
~ Cressida Cowell
When wine is drunk by a drunkard, that wine is revenged on the drinker. Leonardo Da Vinci Notebooks, 1281
~ da Vinci Leonardo
Violence breeds violence
~ Walter Isaacson
Revenge is a feast for the gods!
~ Walter Scott
If the U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, they cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. On 9/11/2001, Americans noticed that payback can be a real motherfucker.
~ Ward Churchill
I'm going to shit in your lungs for this.
~ Warren Ellis
As the first baseman posed these well-crafted queries, Collins went looking for a policeman to arrest Cobb for "striking him while he was wearing eyeglasses," then considered an especially heinous offense.
~ Charles Leerhsen
I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.
~ Charles M. Schulz
People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.
~ Charles Portis
Revenge was personal as a rule. Otherwise it was pointless.
~ Charles Todd
If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should -- so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
~ Charlotte Bronte
A man hits me--I hit the man a little harder--then he won't do it again.' Unfortunately he did do it again--a little harder still. The effort to hit harder carried on the action and reaction till society, hitting hardest of all, set up a system of legal punishment, of unlimited severity. It imprisoned, it mutilated, it tortured, it killed; it destroyed whole families, and razed contumelious cities to the ground.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I was getting the hang of arson. It really sends a message, you know? Not only will I kill your dudes and steal your shit, but I will burn your place down behind me.
~ Cherie Priest
I fully planned to burn the place down behind me on general principle. I was getting the hang of arson. It really sends a message, you know? Not only will I kill your dudes and steal your shit, but I will burn your place down behind me. Yes, I will.
~ Cherie Priest
He needed to find someone that needed killing.
~ Chet Williamson
Jesus Christ." The fury on Nick's face was enough to send me reeling and he hit the table hard enough with his hand that it made the plates and the silverware on the table bounce and clatter. "You give me the names and approximate location of those men who gave you that ultimatum and I'll kill every goddamned one of them." I sighed before I said quietly. "I already did.
~ Cheyenne McCray
My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
~ Loretta Lynn
I introduced his head to the corner of the railing.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.
~ Hal Duncan
An arm for an arm!
~ Hammurabi
an eye for an eye
~ Hammurabi