Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution…

The violence that has been going on incessantly in our community, getting worse and worse by the day, when we are slaughtering ourselves in…

— Louis Farrakhan

No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

— Sulla

“One bad turn does not excuse another.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or…

— Aristotle

“Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but…

— Charb

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for…

— Alexandre Dumas

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some…

— Arthur Henderson

There are some  -  called 'death fatigue'  -  people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death…

— Shane Claiborne

I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.

— Tituss Burgess

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and…

— Juan Manuel Santos

What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938…

— Nicholson Baker

To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between…

— Albert Camus

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to…

— Stephen Kinzer

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

— Mahatma Gandhi