“An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, means we won't be able to see what we are unable to eat”

“If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.”

“HATE FOR HATE — AND RUTH FOR RUTH,EYE FOR EYE — AND TOOTH FOR TOOTH,SCORN FOR SCORN — AND SMILE FOR SMILE,LOVE FOR LOVE — AND GUILE FOR GUILE,WAR FOR WAR, — AND WOE FOR WOE,BLOOD FOR BLOOD — AND BLOW FOR BLOW.”

“What has 32 legs and 1 tooth?'What?' we all asked.A West Virginia unemployment line.”

“I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.”

“I don't believe in the god of the Christians who gave his son in order to save mankind. That's a myth. But why should it have arisen if it didn't express some deep-seated intuition in men? I don't know what I believe, because it's instinctive, and how can you describe instinct with words? I have an instinct that the power that rules us, human beings, animals and things, is a dark and cruel power and that everything has to be paid for, a power that demands an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and that though we may writhe and squirm we have to submit, for the power is ourselves.”