I sat and reflected on the situation I had faced needed answers to the questions I still, didn't have the courage to ask... But I need to know, How was this to be a part of my destiny?

— Nikki Rowe

Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the "injury causers", "red-card" sees their end off!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon us, and it contributes also to our own tranquility, that we put the best construction upon a thing that it will bear. But even this erroneous motive in him makes no motive for love on the other part; and to say that we can love voluntarily, and without a motive, is morally and physically impossible. Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity. Those who preach this doctrine of loving their enemies, are in general the greatest persecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches. For my own part, I disown the doctrine, and consider it as a feigned or fabulous morality; yet the man does not exist that can say I have persecuted him, or any man, or any set of men, either in the American Revolution, or in the French Revolution; or that I have, in any case, returned evil for evil.

— Thomas Paine

[N]body likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

— Rebecca West

Never do an enemy a small injury.

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

— Jaleigh Johnson

Oh, no. He looks half-dead." Charlie's face paled as he eyed the trapper's wrist and the blood-soaked bandages." Indeed." Mackay nodded. "And if we don't get him some proper attention soon, he'll be all dead.

— William Ritter

One great help here - and I make no claim that it is the only help or even a necessary condition for forgiveness - is sincere repentance on the part of the wrongdoer. When I am wronged by another, a great part of the injury - over and above any physical harm I may suffer - is the insulting or degrading message that has been given to me by the wrongdoer: the message that I am less worthy than he is, so unworthy that he may use me merely as a means or object in service to his desires and projects. Thus failing to resent (or hastily forgiving) the wrongdoer runs the risk that I am endorsing that very immoral message for which the wrongdoer stands. If the wrongdoer sincerely repents, however, he now joins me in repudiating the degrading and insulting message - allowing me to relate to him (his new self) as an equal without fear that a failure to resent him will be read as a failure to resent what he HS done.

— Jeffrie G. Murphy

One of my pa...friends... isn't doing very well.""... Is your friend dying?""... Yes honey, he is."" That's sad.

— Justin Madson

On Ryukyu islands, the expert Karate practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi