Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

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

Outraged men will seek revenge.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

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

The injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

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

If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

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.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

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

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

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

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

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

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

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