Ruta Sepetys Quotes

Two wrongs don't make a right.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

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

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

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

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

Justice is revenge.

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

Do not allow your hatred for others to make you swerve to wrongdoing and turn you away from justice.

Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

The injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, wounds equal for equal

Not an eye for an eye, not a tooth for a tooth; that is completely wrong. But for an eye, both the eyes; for a tooth, the whole jaw

… vengeance is seldom justice.

Even if we Moslems believe that we have been the victims of crimes, we should not commit crimes in retaliation. It makes a mockery of our ethical and moral system.

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)