Malcolm X Quotes

I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

The snake will always bite back.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

Those who connived in this crime against us … merits no more consideration than a wild beast, and should be killed without mercy or hesitation as opportunity offers.

People want to kill people because they don't want them out on the street again.

Outraged men will seek revenge.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.

O you who believe! retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

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.

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.

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

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

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

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.