David Eagleman Quotes

Revenge proves its own executioner.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

They will only kill me, but I will return and it will be in the millions

If anybody has done bad things to me, then I must have done the same to them.

You must understand that if you indulge in revenge exclusively, it will come back to you, because those who are revenged upon - even if the whole world believes they deserve it - will in some way express exactly what was expressed towards them. Why perpetuate suffering, no matter how justified it may seem to be, if it only perpetuates suffering in the future for future generations?

The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the 2nd, who then hit puberty like a plane crash and grew into a gorilla who bullied me when he was in the 4th year and I was in the 5th. That's Karma.

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Blood will have blood.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

The evil you do to others you may expect in return.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.