Lucretius Quotes

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

The snake will always bite back.

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

The bitter enmity now raised by the [Muslim] League and its leaders will have to be paid for 100 percent.

Answer a violent action with another action still more violent.

All bite the bitten dog.

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.