An Eye For An Eye Will Leave The World Blind

Mahatma gandhi — bob desautels. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”. The medicine for this poison:

If you take back what was stolen from you, it's justice. Gandhi’s point being that simplistic retribution. We don’t want anything to change because what if we would find that the other part might be right and what we always have believed in is not the whole truth?

Mature rumination peppered with empathy and experience.

The phrase “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” is used frequently to describe an approach of revenge and of disposing justice in which, people retaliate toward any harm done or losses incurred by them, by trying to cause equal harm to anyone seen to be the cause of the harm. You have heard it said, “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” but i say, “offer no [violent] resistance to one who is evil.” (mt. The gandhi institute for nonviolence states that the gandhi family believes it is an authentic gandhi quotation, but no example of its use. We don’t want anything to change because what if we would find that the other part might be right and what we always have believed in is not the whole truth?