Eye For An Eye Quotes

• If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Eye, Teeth

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• I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

  Muhammad Ali

  Dog, Revenge, Believe

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 28, 2013

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• If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.

  Pope Francis

  Eye, Law, Evil

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Eye, Feet

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Time

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• And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Running, Philosophy, War

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• The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Winning

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• An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Eye

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• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

  Jenny Han

  Life, Eye, Teeth

  Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian (2014). “Fire with Fire”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Revenge, Eye

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Forgiving, World

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• I don't believe in a lot of things from the Bronze Age, but an eye for an eye does make a sort of symmetrical sense to me. I really believe that if somebody takes a life, that [death penalty] is what they should get. I also think it's a lot more humane than keeping people in a cage for the rest of their life.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Eye, Thinking

  Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.

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• An eye for an eye is elemental.

  Lou Reed

  Eye, Elementals

  Song: I Believe, Album: Songs For Drella

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• Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Eye, World

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• There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a few years ago, but most men and most women never discover it. For they believe in hitting for hitting; they believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; they believe in hating for hating; but Jesus comes to us and says, 'This isn't the way.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Hate, Believe

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• An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

  Orson Scott Card

  Christian, Eye, People

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

  Sterling W Sill

  Eye, Fighting, Winning

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• Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Eye

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Eye, Law, Blind

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• Today's reading was "if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth." You have chances every second to live this Word, but it has to be in you. It can't just be an idea; it has to sink from the mind into the heart.

  Henri Nouwen

  Reading, Heart, Eye

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

  Michael Connelly

  Eye, Views, Two

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• That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, "You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that."

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Prayer, Eye

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

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• Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.

  W. W. Jacobs

  Funny, Dream, Humorous

  "The Monkeys Paw". Short story by W. W. Jacobs, 1902.

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