Quotes About Retaliation

A lifetime of hurt in one act of vengeance.

You can't laugh last If I stab you in the throat with...the knife you left in my back.

I just want revenge. Is that so wrong?

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

The pleasure that forgiveness gives you can't be achieved from revenge.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

I saw houses burned by the Mujahadeen, as well as disfigured bodies of prisoners they'd taken. But I saw other things too: villages destroyed by our shelling and bodies of women, killed by mistake. When you shoot at every rustling in the bushes, there's no time to think about who's there. But for an Afghan, it didn't matter if his wife had been killed intentionally or accidentally. He went into the mountains to see revenge.

Next time you want to get back at another man, stab him in the heart. Don't piss in his rice.

Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless.

There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.

Vengeance is a passion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you. . . . The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.

SOCRATES: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? CRITO: Very true. SOCRATES: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.

This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice;—it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all, which is to suffer injustice without the power of retaliation; and justice, being at a middle point between the two, is tolerated not as a good, but as the lesser evil, and honoured by reason of the inability of men to do injustice.

Say 'auf wiedersehen' to your nazi balls.

Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.

He's not getting out of here again...But you don't have to go all Marquis de Sade on him either. Just kill him or let me.

People were lost and people were scared and their lynch ropes couldn't reach bankers or stockbrokers, so they looked for targets closer to home.

Interfering Englische schweine! For you very soon now it is curtains, and a death very painful.

No," I agreed dryly. "I don't suppose he'd have been pleased, no matter what you said." "He wasn't. He backhanded me across the mouth, to shut me up.

Wengeful," she said. "Wery wengeful, 'e is. But oo'd blame him?" Oo, indeed? (A Fugitive Green)