Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

Answer a violent action with another action still more violent.

Let's do to Hoover what he does to others.

When I see an idiot in high station I will add such terrors to his elevation as I can. I will put as many thorns in his crown as the leisure that I can snatch from the pressure of other pleasures will permit me to weave in; and neither the deprecation of his friends nor his own retaliatory lies shall stop the good work.

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

Some day we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill some of theirs.

We do have to retaliate but the problem is that every retaliation produces a counter-retaliation…

Is there any way we can screw him?

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Revenge is a powerful motivator.

I could have brought Kevin Kelley to my own backyard and beat him up there. But I didn't want to do that. I wanted to come to his own backyard and bring him down in front of his own crowd, a place he loves.

When you can no longer elucidate the ideas, or when they are too damaging to openly acknowledge, all you can do is simply make threats, demand loyalty.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." 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.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.