Eye For An Eye Quotes

If you ask me, I think it should be an eye for an eye. On everything.

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

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.

If we live according to the law “an eye for an eye…,” we will never escape from the spiral of evil.

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn’t mean much to me. My father is gone.

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

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.

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about “an eye for an eye” leaves everybody blind… The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called “intense competitors,” when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

He’d gone to Louddon’s fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she’d warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn’t deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go.

The reason I can’t follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

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

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

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.”

Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That’s what we do. That’s just the way it is.

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.