J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

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.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

Retaliation is sometimes mercy, mercy to both parties

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.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

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

I don't think vengeance is much good.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

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.

Some people would rather dig fresh graves than heal old wounds.

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

Revenge is easy, but forgiveness requires courage.

Force does not heal old wounds; it opens new ones.

If a man smites you on one cheek, smash him on the other.

Forgiveness is better than revenge

I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence.