retaliation quotes

Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated – preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

The Hell’s Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell’s Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

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

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.