Quotes About Reprisal

Raeder and Dönitz had objected on the practical grounds that such an order would undermine U-boat morale: officers and men would react against shooting defenceless people in the water and would assume that the enemy would mete out the same treatment to them in reprisal if the positions were reversed.

Revenge is two wrongs that make a right. Julian did something wrong. What did you do wrong?

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

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

25. Practice Humility Practice humility and do not try to get ahead of each other. A winner requires a loser. Retribution provokes reprisal. What a foolish circle to be trapped within. We are born in humility and we die in humility. From beginning to end, it is a proven path.

Scandals are responsible for the false infinity of mimetic rivalry. They secrete increasing quantities of envy, jealousy, resentment, hatred—all the poisons most harmful not only for the initial antagonists but also for all those who become fascinated by their rivalistic desires. At the height of scandal each reprisal calls forth a new one more violent than its predecessor.

As we approached Villano we talked over the problem of keeping the guides quiet. We decided that we would have to impress on them the danger to them personally if word of the location of the Aucas got around and if, as a result, there were attacks on the Aucas by the Quichuas or others, followed by Auca reprisal raids.

revenge knows no boundaries!

Unfortunately, reprisal seemed to be the only language that the Arabs understood, the only thing that might stop them.

When you have a sitting president who's willing to publicly show his disdain for a company and the leader of a company, it's very difficult for government agencies including the DOD to make an objective decision without fear of reprisal.

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.

The mass execution was ordered by Raúl Castro and attended by him personally. Nor was it an isolated instance; other officers in Castro's guerrilla forces shot ex-soldiers en masse without a trial, without any charges of any kind lodged against them, simply as an act of reprisal against the defeated army.

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

the fatal privilege". It enshrined the right to recover one's property by force, and in practice to deal with the thieves out of hand. A trod might lawfully be made at any time within six days after the offence; if it was followed immediately it was a hot trod, otherwise it was known as a cold trod. In either case it was governed by strict rules; a careful line was drawn, under Border law, between a trod and a reprisal raid.

So, tell me. Was it fear that stopped you? Fear of reprisal? Fear of what else they might do to you? Sister, how bad does a situation have to be before a woman will strike out, not in defence, but because something is, as you say, worth fighting for?

They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them

Nor was anyone empowered to both enforce Hillary's will and tell her when she was wrong without fear of reprisal.

She pays him in his own coin.

My dear, acting out is not the point because then the game would end. If I gave up the hope of reprisal, I'd forfeit the anger, which is better than pain.

Vengeance is sweet.

An eye for an eye." "That's a revenge thing, right? From some play." "The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.

Her beauty had always made it easy for her to break rules without reprisal.

In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever

Así que, si me ayudas, es solo por temor a represalias. —Le doy la espalda, vuelvo a echarme en la cama, dispuesta a seguir durmiendo, y le resumo en una palabra lo que pienso de él—: Cabrón.