Quotes About Eye for an eye

Under the name of guilds, friendships, brotherhoods, universities, etc., associations multiplied: for mutual defence, to avenge affronts suffered by some member of the association and to express solidarity, to replace 'eye for an eye' vengeance by compensation, followed by acceptance of the aggressor into the brotherhood

If anybody has done bad things to me, then I must have done the same to them.

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

Do unto others much worse than than they'll ever do unto you and you'll never get hurt ever again" -James "Buck" Bukowitz

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and evil for evil.

HATE FOR HATE — AND RUTH FOR RUTH, EYE FOR EYE — AND TOOTH FOR TOOTH, SCORN FOR SCORN — AND SMILE FOR SMILE, LOVE FOR LOVE — AND GUILE FOR GUILE, WAR FOR WAR, — AND WOE FOR WOE, BLOOD FOR BLOOD — AND BLOW FOR BLOW.

He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.

An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.

And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That's what we do. That's just the way it is.

Eye for an Eye' is super-simple, super-catchy, but very effective.

If you ask me, I think it should be an eye for an eye. On everything.

Deep down she approved of his kind of 'an eye for an eye' justice.

A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Lord Sanquire was hanged in the days of James I. for the revengeful murder of an "Alsatian " master named Turner, who had accidentally put out his eye.

Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

Tit for tat.

An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

law of retaliation, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," is "interwoven with injustice," since, as Ptolemy points out, "the one who is second to act unjustly still acts unjustly, differing only in the relative order in which he acts, and committing the very same act