Top 36 Do Not Retaliate Quotes
#1. It is supposed to be in very bad taste to discuss a person behind his back; and to discuss a dead person behind his back is most unfair, for he cannot even retaliate.
Ruskin Bond
#2. SOCRATES: For doing evil to another is the same as injuring him? CRITO: Very true. SOCRATES: Then we ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to anyone, whatever evil we may have suffered from him.
Plato
#3. The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much.
Virginia Woolf
#4. Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
Criss Jami
#5. Be like the Sun; it is too great to retaliate when small men throw stones at it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. Lily asked Calvin to play dolls with her. He reluctantly joined her on the floor, but it soon became Chuck Norris meets Joy doll and she was going down repeatedly. Lily, scandalized, pouted, but began to retaliate. Oh no you don't, Chuck! I'm Piper, psycho Barbie!
Shelly Crane
#7. My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#9. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
Eric Hoffer
#10. Asking why you should retaliate often solves the problem better than retaliation itself.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#11. Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
Timothy Keller
#12. Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
John Foster Dulles
#13. We retaliate instead of reflect, and we burn hot in the flames of revenge rather than cool our heels in the pool of patience.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate
they only reply, and purr in doing so.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Age doesn't matter. Family doesn't matter. Rules don't matter. Only you and I matter. And this ... It feels right. Better than right. Meant to be. He lost the ability to retaliate as my hands cupped him harder.
Pepper Winters
#17. AMUN BLINKED OPEN HIS EYES. Or tried to. The action proved difficult, since his lashes felt as if they'd been glued together. And maybe they had been. If one of his friends had punked him, he was going to retaliate. With scissors.
Gena Showalter
#18. Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.
John Wooden
#19. There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.
Edward James Olmos
#20. So he's harmless, then."
"I wouldn't say that, exactly."
"No?"
"I would n't slip up behind him with a knife, for he might retaliate."
Michael shrugged. "But that's to be expected. He kills only when necessary."
Mary covered her face with her hands and moaned.
Karen Hawkins
#21. It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
Booker T. Washington
#22. A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
Paul Eldridge
#23. Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.
Jeff Cooper
#24. My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
#25. Buck found it to be cheaper to mend his ways than to retaliate.
Jack London
#26. The fae went down, and before he could retaliate, I went all Van Helsing on his ass.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#27. Neither civilized reason nor Christian love would cause any of those people to treat you as they presumably wanted to be treated; only the fear of your power to retaliate would cause them to do that, or to seem to do it, which was (and is) good enough.
James Baldwin
#28. Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
Alan Greenspan
#29. The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
William Stewart Halsted
#30. Be too great, like the Sun, to retaliate when lesser men throw stones at you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies.
Paul Cornell
#32. Our insecurities cause us to retaliate in outrageously greater proportions to whatever it was that came at us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#33. We all know it's safer to beat up on people who won't retaliate,' he told her, 'but it's a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it happens.
Minette Walters
#34. A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.
Paul Eldridge
#35. I feel terrible for a Palestinian child who dies. But, if it's your father, your brother or your uncle who was firing those rockets into Israel, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect the Israelis not to retaliate?
Bill Maher
#36. Mostly, people who do not love "change" always go into disagreement when it is suggested. The worst part of the matter that sends their neck veins bulging in vengeance is when that change for progress was meant and would need to affect their position!
Israelmore Ayivor
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