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Quotes About Retaliation

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
~ Steve Perry
Stevie, don't get cross, get even.
~ Jeffrey Archer
The first is that they subjugate themselves out of guilt, or because they want to relieve the pain of others; and the second is that they subjugate because they anticipate rejection, retaliation, or abandonment. These reasons correspond to two types of subjugation.
~ Jeffrey E. Young
Leave me, before I get over the wall & slay you.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Let's bomb Fishface's house!
~ Jerry Spinelli
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.
~ Judith Martin
The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.
~ Tzvetan Todorov
They tried to get me—I got them first!
~ Vachel Lindsay
Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back to the Middle Ages.
~ Unknown
Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.
~ Chinese proverb
Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.
~ Peter Singer
I tell you, one more insult and I'll take his curling tongs and ram them so far up his arse he'll be able to curl the damned thing from the inside.
~ David Gemmell
We have allowed others to program us with methods of self-torture, and we can see that we have retaliated by inviting others to torture themselves in return. We have allowed ourselves to be manipulated by guilt, and we turn it around and use that same mechanism of guilt to try to exploit and control others.
~ David R. Hawkins
Motherfucker, you try that again and I'll come in there with a fucking coat hanger and give you something to fucking kick about
~ David Sedaris
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
~ Howard Zinn
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
~ Howard Zinn
There's plenty of symmetry in revenge, but no virtue.
~ Hugh Mackay
With one vicious kick to his head, Dom
~ Unknown
You can't just wound the bear and run. He'll come after you.
~ Conn Iggulden
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
~ Cornelius Vanderbilt
Perhaps you should bite me", Bobby Pendragon.
~ D. J. MacHale
It is curious but true that those who make a habit of saying unkind things are often the most easily hurt and offended when their victims retaliate.
~ D.E. Stevenson