Retaliatory Measures Quotes

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

We leave it to the [local] bishops to weigh the circumstances in deciding whether or not to exercise restraint, ad maiora mala vitanda [to avoid greater evil]. This would be advisable if the danger of retaliatory and coercive measures would be imminent in cases of public statements of the bishop. Here lies one of the reasons we ourselves restrict our public statements. The experience we had in 1942 with documents which we released for distribution to the faithful gives justification, as far as we can see, for our attitude.

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

… resorting to retaliation means that your deterrence policy has failed.

Reprisals are but a sad resource.

I love it when people come up to me and they say a line. Like, you know, 'My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'

It's the wrong time for us to be pulling the rug out from under American exporters.

Revenge doesn't stop.

Unilateral sanctions only make foreign rivals stronger and taint us as unreliable suppliers.

Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

As players, we always have a way to get back at you.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

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.

I owe to Britain a debt of retaliatory vengeance.

I think there's a lot of folks who believe that this is a time that Democrats have to fight fire with fire. As a guy who ran a fire department, that's not a really good strategy.