An Eye For An Eye Quotes

“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there are basic human rights I believe that every human being has. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations says it for me. And it says there are two basic rights that can't be negotiated that government doesn't give for good behavior and doesn't take away for bad behavior. And it's the right not to be tortured and not to be killed. Because the flip side of this is that then when you say OK we're gonna turn over -- they truly have done heinous things, so now we will turn over to the government now the right to take their life. It involves other people in doing essentially the same kind of act."

(PBS Frontline: Angel on Death Row)”
― Sister Helen Prejean

“Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.”
― Euripides, Electra

“If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We can understand the historical reasons why many embrace hatred, while refusing to surrender to the ills of the past.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Revenge increases our pain whenever it has failed to end, or at least decrease, our pain.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“24:20 an eye for an eye. Perhaps the most perplexing of the ethical laws is the principle of justice expressed in the formulation "an eye for an eye" It has frequently been cited as evidence of the stern character of YHWH, but that is a misunderstanding. In its context in Leviticus it applies solely to human justice. YHWH Himself frequently follows a more relenting course than that, from the golden calf event to a series of reprieves for seemingly undeserving individuals and communities in subsequent books of the Tanakh. As for the meaning of this formulation for human justice, we must read it in its context, where the basic principle appears to be that punishment should correspond to the crime and never exceed it”
― Richard Elliott Friedman, Commentary on the Torah

“An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth make people keep their eyes closed and their mouths shut.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov