Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

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

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

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.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

[..] and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

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

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I wouldn't be honest if I told you that in some moment of my life I had a lot of rage - probably hate - I'm not sure of hate, but rage. But you know what happens is that then you realize you cannot do to others what you think nobody has to do to anybody. Life is important for me and not any kind of life, quality too of life.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

Answer a violent action with another action still more violent.

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.

I'm not a guy who believes in revenge.

Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: "Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. "And then Opal will be loved." And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead.