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Quotes About Retaliation

When a woman hates, she will wreck a dozen lives to pay back what she conceives to be some injury.
~ Christina Stead
The tsar twice went to visit Stolypin again, but on both occasions Stolypin's wife Olga, blaming him for the attack, refused to allow Nicholas to see him.45 On 5 September Stolypin died of sepsis and Olga Stolypina declined to accept the tsar's condolences. With martial law declared in Kiev and 30,000 troops on alert, fears spread of an anti-Jewish pogrom in retaliation, prompting many of the Jewish residents to flee the city.
~ Helen Rappaport
She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life for an eye.
~ Helen Zahavi
Vengeance is mine. I will repay.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The law of God is not to return evil for evil; indeed, if you try in this way to stamp out wickedness it will come upon you all the stronger. It is not difficult for you to kill the man, but his blood will surely stain your own soul. You may think you have killed a bad man--that you have gotten rid of evil--but you will soon find out that the seeds of still greater wickedness have been planted within you.
~ Leo Tolstoy
They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
One, your hair is stupid. And two, I don't know what it's like where you come from, but if you ever do anything that could get me sent back to Brooklyn again, I won't just break your nose. I will motherfucking kill you.
~ Lev Grossman
And now we are going to put our Jimmy Choo so far up your ass, your going to taste next season.
~ Lev Grossman
Terrorists are overjoyed when we shut down our freedoms and turn ourselves into a police state and when we retaliate, swatting the Middle East with useless bombs or rounding up the wrong suspects and locking them up without charge.
~ Peter Hitchens
The people whose children had to walk barefoot to school killed the people who could buy shoes for theirs.
~ Jared Diamond
You killed my pappy, said the youth, and my pappy's pappy. And his pappy's pappy. And my brothers Jethro, Hank, Hoss, Red, Peregrine, Marsh, Junior, Dizzy, Luke, Peregrine, George and all the others. I'm callin' you out, lawman.
~ Jasper Fforde
Besides, I punched him in the eye.
~ Jasper Fforde
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
The other kids threw bars of soap at her, pushed one another into her path and wrote graffiti about her on the bathroom walls. In return, she cursed them out in Latin.
~ Unknown
I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.
~ Brande Roderick
When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.
~ Laurence Yep
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
~ John Foster Dulles
Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
~ Mandy Patinkin
If somebody says or does something to me first, then I'll respond, and I go overboard with it, and it seems like I'm the one that has beef with somebody.
~ Cam'ron
Looking good is the best revenge.
~ Tony Curtis
Okay, Fish, we fly in there, and we kill those motherfuckers,
~ Unknown
Hey, I'm mad, too," Tsunami said. "But —" "LET'S GO BACK AND KILL HIM AGAIN.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Well, THAT was not going to stand. NO, SIR. THIS time, there would MOST DEFINITELY BE CONSEQUENCES, FROG.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
They should just find the dragon who did it and give them a slow, horrible death. Perhaps by making them listen to Starflight talk for the next hundred years.
~ Tui T. Sutherland