#Retaliation Quotes

“The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.”

“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”

“Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”

“Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.”

“When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.”

“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.”

“I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.”

“If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person.”

“The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.”

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

“You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence.”

“If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.”

“The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.”

“Requite injury with kindness.”

“If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake bit her, I'm going out and kill the snake. And when I find the snake, I'm not going to look and see if he has blood on his jaws.”

“I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with Pang Dehuai is such: You don't touch me, I don't touch you; You touch me,I touch you. Even though we were once like brothers, it doesn't change a thing.”

“Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.”

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”

“The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.”

“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”

“I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.”

“I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.”

“I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.”

“I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.”

“When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.”

“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”

“To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?”