They ask us to stop hurting each other in response to our hurting inside, because if we don’t, we will all end up blind and hurting and unable to help each other when we need it the most. Gandhi’s words don’t ask us to stop hurting inside. Wherever you live, whatever you do, however you speak, we must hold each other in loss, in laughter, in life and in death. We are the only ones who are here for each other. You whose world just came to an end, we are here for you. The exact Latin (lex talionis) to English translation of this phrase is actually The law of retaliation. Ive never understood how someone can believe and wholeheartedly follow this quote. The meaning of the principle Eye for an Eye is that a person who has been injured by another person returns the offending action to the originator in compensation, or that an authority does so on behalf of the injured person. ![]() You whose scream inside has not yet made it to your lips, we hear you. 'An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind' Is a stupid quote. You who are crumbling inside, we crumble with you. You who are enraged, we are enraged with you. You who are in shock, we are in shock with you. I think we can see that in a lot of cases in our world. The principle of non-violence is the central theme and is applicable to all fields of human endeavor. You who have lost, we have lost with you. It is saying that if you take revenge (like by taking an eye for an eye), you just end up hurting everyone. The Gandhiji as a philosopher by virtue and Statesman my action and his words of ' an eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind', is time tested and is true and universal in its nature. We want reality to stop staring us in the face even when our eyes are closed. We want revenge, we want justice and we want payback, but mostly we want the hole in our heart to stop bleeding. Injustice rubs up offensively against our inherent sense of fairness. When turning on the television, radio, or simply opening the local newspaper, we are bombarded with news of arrests, murders, homicides, serial killers, and. ![]() In the video, Sonam had wrongly credited the eye for an eye quote to Robert De Niro on the sets of Koffee with Karan. The ancient notion of exacting the same amount of. Those words are easy to say when it’s not your son that’s been senselessly beaten, when it’s not your daughter that’s been raped, when it’s not your parent that was in the World Trade towers, when it’s not your fiancé that was on Malaysia Airlines flight 370. While retweeting Mirzas tweet, she wrote, 'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.' Netizens were quick to dig out an old video of Sonam soon after her tweet. The statement is suggesting that justice that is rooted in vengeance does not solve what it purports to solve. An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind.
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