Retaliate Quotes

#1. Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

John Dear

#2. The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

William Stewart Halsted

#3. Be too great, like the Sun, to retaliate when lesser men throw stones at you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies.

Paul Cornell

#5. Our insecurities cause us to retaliate in outrageously greater proportions to whatever it was that came at us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

Albert Ellis

#9. Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

Stephen M. Walt

#10. When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.

Bert Blyleven

#11. 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

#12. The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians

Bernard Membe

#13. Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. 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

#16. Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.

Ellen Willis

#17. A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate.

Rick Warren

#18. essence of nonviolence was a refusal to retaliate against evil, a refusal based on the realization that "the law of retaliation is the law of the multiplication of evil.

David J. Garrow

#19. I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. What's tragic isn't that we can't retaliate...
What's truly tragic is...
...being consumed with vengeance and not being able to live your life.

Sui Ishida

#21. The boy was strong, and wanted to retaliate, but he was in a foreign country.

Paulo Coelho

#22. Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#23. A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. It is curious but true that those who make a habit of saying unkind things are often the most easily hurt and offended when their victims retaliate.

D.E. Stevenson

#25. When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolerant towards her. Believers, who believe something else besides what she teaches, retaliate by attacking her in the very sanctuary itself.

Pierre-Jean De Beranger

#26. This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.

Mike Tyson

#27. There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him ... Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?

Donna Lynn Hope

#28. See, Josh, that's what you do when someone slaps you in the face. So the next time it happens to you, try to retaliate.

CM Punk

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Be like the Sun; it is too great to retaliate when small men throw stones at it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. 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

#35. My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. 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

#37. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

Eric Hoffer

#38. Asking why you should retaliate often solves the problem better than retaliation itself.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#39. Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Timothy Keller

#40. Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

John Foster Dulles

#41. 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

#42. I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

Chuck Norris

#43. Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate
they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.

John Wooden

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

Jeff Cooper

#52. 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

#53. Buck found it to be cheaper to mend his ways than to retaliate.

Jack London

#54. The fae went down, and before he could retaliate, I went all Van Helsing on his ass.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#55. Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Alan Greenspan

#56. 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