Reciprocal Action Quotes

To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.

If Iran has a policy of detaining dual nationals as a tool of diplomatic leverage, then there will be consequences for Iran. We will not let them get away with it scot-free. They have to understand this is not a sustainable situation.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

This is a perfect illustration of reverse causality. Hamas threatens and harasses Israel, but it is only Israel’s response that warrants close attention and scrutiny.

The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

Peace cannot be unilateral.

You may meet commercial restriction with commercial restriction, but you cannot safely confront premeditated insult and injury with commercial restrictions alone.

In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if we were in his circumstances and he in ours; or more generally - What we approve in others, that we ought to practise in like circumstances, what we condemn in others we ought not to do.

They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Whoever harms civilians must expect similar responses.

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

You screw me, I screw you back. I'm a lady like that.

I've never hit anybody who hasn't clocked me two or three times.

Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

If there is someone to haul the fir-tree, there shall be no shortage of those willing to hold a branch to help.