Nelson Mandela Quotes

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

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

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

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

All right, come on in! We’ll meet you man to man. You will kill us, but you will pay for it.

Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

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

To deal with us, you must understand us, We believe in an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth. We do not understand Christian charity.

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

Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That's what we do. That's just the way it is.

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.

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

These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

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

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

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

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

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

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.