Carl Icahn Quotes

Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.

Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

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.

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

The snake will always bite back.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil—and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

I feel like getting even, and if I live long enough I will.

… vengeance is seldom justice.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

I don't get mad, I get even.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

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?

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.