The principle of an eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind.
There must be some element of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
I do not accept the doctrine of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
In this dispensation of grace, it is not an eye for an eye.
Those were the days when it was a case of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
It does not really mean taking an eye for an eye, but that not more than an eye should be taken.
There is now a blood feud—a life for a life, a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye.
In the new culture of partnership, we recognise that the old adage of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
The solution for transcending the demands of 'an eye for an eye' is neither moral, nor military, but political.
It is the emotional argument of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
Retribution is a primitive instinct stretching back to lextalionis—an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
That is surely the concept of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth with a vengeance.
With his suggestion we should see a situation in which there would be an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
We are more inclined to pursue the policy of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
It is a very natural desire to demand an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and two lives for a life.
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