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  • 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.

    Baseball   Cheer   Dirty  
  • 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.

    Forgiveness   Eye   World  
  • An eye for an eye....we are all blind

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

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

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

    Believe   Eye   Thinking  
    Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.
  • 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.

    Life   Eye   Teeth  
    Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian (2014). “Fire with Fire”, p.517, Simon and Schuster
  • If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

  • There are some  -  called 'death fatigue'  -  people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.

    Pain   Tired   Eye  
    Source: medium.com
  • An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press
  • Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

    Revenge   Drama   Action  
    Source: collider.com
  • An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

    Eye   Forgiving   World  
  • 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.

    Reading   Heart   Eye  
    Source: www.liguorian.org
  • 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.

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

    Eye   Views   Two  
  • An eye for an eye is elemental.

    Song: I Believe, Album: Songs For Drella
  • I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.

    Beautiful   Believe   Eye  
  • Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres 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.

    Revenge   Drama   Eye  
    Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 9, 2013.
  • Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.

    Funny   Dream   Humorous  
    "The Monkeys Paw". Short story by W. W. Jacobs, 1902.
  • If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.

    Eye   Law   Evil  
    Source: www.thedailybeast.com
  • An eye for an eye.” “That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.” “The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.

    Revenge   Eye   Play  
    J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.31, Penguin
  • An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

    Revenge   Eye   Blind  
  • An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.26, RosettaBooks
  • Maybe the realisation of the full human potential is the utopian thing. Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to get there. But right now it seems like we're duplicating what was written in the Bible, a millennium ago, which is "An eye for an eye." Revenge policy; "If you hit me, we'll hit you back worse"; ad infinitum.

    Revenge   Struggle   Eye  
    Source: www.denofgeek.com
  • 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.

    Revenge   Eye   Feet  
    Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.525, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Eye   Fighting   Winning  
  • 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.

    Christian   Jesus   Eye  
    Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
  • I dont believe in an eye for an eye, I believe in two eyes for an eye

    Believe   Eye   Two  
  • I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

    Believe   Eye   Mirrors  
  • 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.'

    Jesus   Hate   Believe  
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