“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.”
Source: Fire with Fire
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“If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.”

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), I and I

As quoted in Il Duce: The Life and Work of Benito Mussolini, L. Kemechey, New York: NY, Richard R. Smith (1930) p. 56. Written just before taking editorship of the Italian Socialist Party newspaper Avanti in 1912.
1910s

Page 82
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!”
Lear, Act I, scene iv.
Source: King Lear (1605–6)