The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi called for an eye for an eye long before the Israelite law did. |
This is the reason why God had to tell them to pay back only an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. |
The magnificence of our legal system, your Honor, is that we do not seek an eye for an eye. |
Second, desperate for security, citizens have relented to relinquishing a growing share of their rights: eye for an eye seems to be the refrain. |
Yes, I know the old Bob Dylan song, that if we take an eye for an eye we'll just end up blind. |
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is definitely not a part of true Hindu doctrine. |