Slavoj Zizek Quotes

The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

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.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

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.

They killed one nigger, one Jew, and a white man. I gave them all what I thought they deserved.

We have taken down almost every one of the ISIS people who killed, him. processed him or detained him. And we will get the rest even if it takes us another 50 years.

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.

All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.

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

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

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

Revenge proves its own executioner.

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

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

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

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

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

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

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.