Quotes About Retaliation

So I reached down into my workbasket, took my wee knife from its sheath, and went for his balls

If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back.

Possibile che tu non riesca a pensare ad altro che alla tua vendetta?

The wrecked mess of flesh had to hurt like hell and I was just starting to feel a little sympathy for Kujima when some distant corner of my brain sent me a reminder that he'd shot me, beaten me and was about to light me on fire.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

I think some people deserve to get their asses kicked

The Sheikh determined to do something so large that the consequent American retaliation had to result in large numbers of people on the ground in the red dust of the Registan Desert and the jagged heights of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

ne feriare feri' (strike lest thou be stricken).

The implication—never questioned by anyone at RAND while I was there—was that adequate deterrence for the United States demanded a survivable, assured second-strike capability to kill more than the twenty million Soviet citizens who had died in World War II. That meant we were working to assure the survival under attack of a capability for retaliatory genocide, though none of us ever thought of it in those terms for a moment.

SAC's only mission in that initial period—which included the formation of NATO—was to threaten or carry out a U.S. first strike against the Soviet Union (possibly to protect Middle East oil, as well as Berlin and Western Europe). It was not at all to deter or retaliate for a nuclear attack on the United States or anywhere else, which was not then a physical possibility.

we were working to assure the survival under attack of a capability for retaliatory genocide

For every ton of bombs dropped on England in the nine months of the Blitz, England and the United States, mainly England, eventually dropped a hundred tons of bombs on German cities.

For every ton of bombs dropped on England in the nine months of the Blitz, England and the United States, mainly England, eventually dropped a hundred tons of bombs on German cities. More than half a million Germans—civilians—were killed.

While some wars are planned, others result from each side retaliating in ways it views as proportionate but viewed by the other side as disproportionate.

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.

If she made a cake for him, she'd use salt in place of sugar-and lots of it.

Why should I reward his dirty tricks with my lily-white hand?