Pay Evil Unto Evil/Quotes

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We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us...
What goes around comes around. Sometimes you get what's coming. And sometimes you are what's coming.
Men get arrested...dogs get put down!
Rorschach, Watchmen
Later on, she told me the whole story. About the day she left her village. About the old man, about Cristu and Vera. About the thing her father said. About her baby. When she was done, I knew a lot of men would have to die.
Bread for bread, blood for blood.
Russian proverb
Thieves that steal from thieves are pardoned for a hundred years.
Portuguese proverb

Helen: Have you ever killed anyone?

Harry: Yes, but they were all bad.

He had it coming!
He had it coming!
He only had himself to blame!
If you had been there,
If you had seen it,

I betcha you would have done the same!
—the chorus of "Cell Block Tango," Chicago
"Maybe now you know what it feels like to plan something and then have it ruined by someone else!"
Jade West, Victorious episode "Prom Wrecker"

In one game I ran, there was a troll child that witnessed the murder of her parents by the party. They picked her up as spoils of war and sold her to the butcher: since she regenerated, they could keep cutting meat out of her for eating, flay her skin over and over again to make leather armor from, and have wizards vivisect her for their students to show off troll biology.

But trolls are always evil, so it's okay.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is barbarity.
I know the politically correct types half a century later expect me to get all teary-eyed when I hear about Hiroshima or Dresden. Well, you say Hiroshima, I say Nanjing. You say Dresden, I say the London Blitz.
Killer Jill McMillan, David Isaak's Shock And Awe
Evil shall with evil be expelled.
You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.
Muhammad Ali
You humans have a saying: "An eye for an eye, a life for a life." He owes me ten lives and I plan to collect.
Garrus Vakarian, Mass Effect 2


We just stopped a group of bandits that were preying on a small town. Does that mean we've done one of those "Good deeds through multiple acts of violent murder" things that adventurers always do in books?
Meji, Errant Story
When Frank Castle pays evil, he pays in fuel.
The Punisher, former trope image as he douses a slaver in petroleum and sets him alight.
Die slow, you fuck.
Homer Johnson, Rainbow Six (to a terrorist he had gut-shot for murdering a sick little girl).