Chris Rock Quotes

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.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last.

I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.

If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done.

I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.

You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.

I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

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

I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.

I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester, over every fenced-in city in the whole country, and I will bomb and bomb and bomb, and watch all their buildings smoldering to dust, and all those people melting and bleeding into flame, and I will see how they like it. If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.