{"quotes":[{"text":"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.","author":"Euripides","tags":["hate","incurable","love","retaliation","revenge","wounds"],"id":3915,"author_id":"Euripides"},{"text":"One bad turn does not excuse another.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["getting-even","retaliation","revenge","richelle","richelle-goodrich","unkindness","vengeance"],"id":14105,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act.","author":"Hunter S. Thompson","tags":["battle","philosophy","retaliation"],"id":34056,"author_id":"Hunter+S.+Thompson"},{"text":"Don't starve an instinct with a lie on, Never hit or deceive a wounded lion. He heals faster than you can imagine And hurts even more when in famine.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","crime","dark","deceit","deceive","fiction","ghost-story","hate","hunger","hungry","instinct","lie","lion","literature","love","mystery","novel","passion","paybacks","retaliation","revenge","storytelling","suspense","thriller"],"id":65833,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"But inevitably, when I can't harm the people who harmed me, I just end up harming the people who love me. So maybe retaliation or holding on to anger about the harm done to me doesn't actually combat evil. Maybe it feeds it. In the end, if we're not careful, we can actually absorb the worst of our enemy and on some level even become them.","author":"Nadia Bolz-Weber","tags":["anger","enemy","retaliation"],"id":96338,"author_id":"Nadia+Bolz-Weber"},{"text":"The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, but only retaliation after an insult or other mistreatment.","author":"Steven Pinker","tags":["culture","honor","insult","retaliation","revenge","violence"],"id":117265,"author_id":"Steven+Pinker"},{"text":"Hate springs from fear. Violence is released hatred. Behind every hateful crime and act of human brutality is an admission of fearfulness.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["fear","fear","hate","hatred","hatred","retaliation","revenge"],"id":126536,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.","author":"Emily Thorne","tags":["crimes","guilty","innocent","payment","retaliation","retribution","revenge","revenge-tv-series","symmetry","unpunished","violence"],"id":136531,"author_id":"Emily+Thorne"},{"text":"Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days in prison.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["10000","10000-days","10000-days-in-prison","average","best","bitter","excel","excellence","excellent","food-for-thought","forgive","israelmore-ayivor","madiba","mandela","mediocre","mediocrity","nelson-mandela","prison","retaliate","retaliation","retard","retardation","spend"],"id":253053,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","blower","confirm","electric","electrical","electricidad","electricity","health","kea","mauna","mountain","mountaintop","occasion","osha","protection","retaliation","right","rights","rights-of-man","safe","safe-place","safety","solar","solar-energy","solar-power","solar-pv","solar-system","solar-systems","system","systemic-failure","telescope","telescopes","twice","whistle","whistle-blower","whistleblower","worker","worker-rights","workers","workplace","workplace-politics"],"id":304055,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}