I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
    81·
    1 year ago

    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” -Gandhi

    • TauriWarrior@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Except it doesn’t, “the eye for an eye” is a restriction on the amount of revenge.

      “…a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree by the injured party. In softer interpretations, it means the victim receives the [estimated] value of the injury in compensation. The intent behind the principle was to restrict compensation to the value of the loss.”