Top 100 An Eye For An Eye Quotes
#2. An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.
Natalya Vorobyova
#3. An eye for an eye."
"That's a revenge thing, right? From some play."
"The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.
J.D. Robb
#4. She shuddered. Little frightened her as much as the unholy canines. But she did find it amusing that the souls of evil humans who had tortured animals and were sent to Sheoul-gra got to spend a lot of time in the pits with the beasts. She'd always loved the whole an-eye-for-an-eye thing.
Larissa Ione
#5. She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life for an eye.
Helen Zahavi
#7. ("An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)
Kate Atkinson
#9. 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.
#10. The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.
Tzvetan Todorov
#11. An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'
Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
Orson Scott Card
#13. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
Bas Rutten
#14. Cause I'm a Christian. Or was. And Christ's love doesn't work, is what we feel in the Army. That kind of shit gets you killed here, it's an eye for an eye here, if Christ's love was real this whole war couldn't be happening.
David James Duncan
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. An eye for an eye won't work because all it does is double the number of eyeless people.
Robert Farrar Capon
#18. If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#19. An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.
Anthony Burgess
#20. And so it's an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Blood for blood? And for that blood, more blood? A sea of blood? Do you want to drown the world in blood? O naive, damaged girl! Is that how you mean to fight evil, little witcher?
Andrzej Sapkowski
#21. An eye for an eye will ruin your depth perception
C.M. Stunich
#22. It was the logic of retaliation that created the constitutional state. The enshrined promise of an eye for an eye, the sinner burning in hell or at least dangling for the gallows. Revenge is basically the foundation of civilization
Jo Nesbo
#23. Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. An eye for an eye will make us all blind.
Morra Quatro
#25. Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.
Les Miserables
#26. An eye for an eye is elemental.
Lou Reed
#27. An eye for an eye ... the whole world goes blind" , spoken by Nathan
Jessica Jones
#28. An eye for an eye just makes the world blind
M K Gandhi
#29. The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.
Greg Iles
#30. An eye for an eye is smart, see, but love is dumb, lovers are fools.
David James Duncan
#31. An 'eye for an eye' shall leave you all blind.
It's sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to see the beauty that tomorrow will bring.
Michelle Horst
#32. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. Karma doesn't require an eye for an eye. It only requires that we learn our lessons.
Joan Pillen
#34. An eye for an eye.
And the whole world goes blind.
Lauren Oliver
#36. Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
Andrew Young
#37. in the sentiment of Mahatma Gandhi, when we practice the law of an eye for an eye, we all end up blind.
Desmond Tutu
#38. 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.
Sandra Cisneros
#39. The Quran obliges every able Muslim to participate in jihad and fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, and kill them wherever you find them ... an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
#40. 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.
#41. A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from "What you've done angers me" to "What you've done is wrong." Popular justifications include the moral high ground of righteous indignation and the more simple equation known by its biblical name: an eye for an eye.
Gavin De Becker
#42. When society believes that an eye for an eye is acceptable, eventually everyone will go blind." At
Bella Forrest
#43. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, means we won't be able to see what we are unable to eat
Daniel Lee Edstrom
#44. But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman - you are as an animal - 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.
Truman Capote
#45. An eye for an eye is never enough. Never, never, never.
Adrian Phoenix
#46. An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran
#47. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world monocular.
John Green
#48. An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. 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
#50. If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye ... ," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.
Pope Francis
#51. An eye for an eye, I tell myself. A beating for a beating.
Tarryn Fisher
#53. 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.
Michael Jordan
#54. 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
#55. On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.
Morrie Ryskind
#56. An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
Russell Hoban
#57. I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#58. I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
Dagmara Dominczyk
#59. I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.
Jean M. Auel
#60. It seems that in our society Christianity has made permanent inroads in the eye-for-an-eye department but has made little progress on the practical application of forgiveness.
Steve Toltz
#61. I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.
Mary Roach
#62. I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
Mark Haddon
#63. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
Rumi
#64. It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
Kwame Nkrumah
#65. Oh, darling, just look at your poor face. You're going to need an herb poultice and a fresh piece of steak for that wound."
"And here I was looking forward to eating dinner, not wearing it on my face.
Tracy Anne Warren
#66. Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.
James Chanos
#67. I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.
David Gerrold
#68. The goddess shrugged. 'One of my sons recently traded an eye for the ability to make a real difference in the world.
Rick Riordan
#69. 'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.
David A.R. White
#70. Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.
Lewis Thomas
#71. Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.
Adriana Trigiani
#72. When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which he wrestles into the back of his pickup truck. Then he writes for the rest of the day.
Kelly Link
#73. I would that I were an old beggar
Rolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by.
William Butler Yeats
#74. If passion drives you,
let mathematical functioning
hold the reins.
As an eye is meant to see things,
a soul is here for its own joy.
Memorize the formulas and
apply them to life.
Passion is energy.
Anisa Claire West
#75. I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
Jarvis Cocker
#76. I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.
Stephen Mangan
#77. The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
Aristotle.
#78. Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
Otto Von Bismarck
#79. It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the distinctive charm that this sort of mixture of sublimity, sickness, and childishness has to offer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye.
("For The Rest Of Her Life")
Cornell Woolrich
#81. You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.
Masha Tupitsyn
#82. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.
Michael Specter
#83. Ah yes, you like to cook, don't you?
well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an eye for presentation. it's not a modern art. good cooking has hardly evolved since the nineteenth century.
Haruki Murakami
#85. While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.
David Duke
#86. I have been incapable of moving, even a finger or an eye, for at least a year now. I feel relatively certain about this timeframe because I have been watching the crepe myrtle outside the window of the room I am in...
Jason Leclerc
#87. Within the ring there lies an O,
Within the O there looks an eye,
In the eye there swims a sea,
And in the sea reflected sky,
And in the sky there shines the sun,
Within the sun a bird of gold.
Kathleen Raine
#88. An eye sees only what they look for. Their sight is narrower than a blade of grass.
Victoria Aveyard
#89. If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.
Richard Louv
#90. At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.
W.G. Sebald
#91. study after study also directly links the intake of excess sugar to an increased risk for cancer, diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, eye diseases, osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, and other inflammatory diseases.
Colette Heimowitz
#92. To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.
James Hillman
#93. I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.
Elizabeth Goudge
#94. I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changing fluidly from one place to another without seeming effort.
Jennifer Tipton
#95. This whole city is most certainly a pitiful corpse, while the neighborhood outside the walls of this bar has the distinction of being the withering heart of the deceased. And I am a devoted student of its anatomy - a pathologist, after a fashion, with an eye for necroses that others overlook.
Thomas Ligotti
#96. The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#98. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Corinthians, 15:52
Phillip W. Simpson
#99. Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
Robert Graves
#100. Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.
Marguerite Yourcenar
