A glass marble with an eye-like center resting on dark cracked paving.

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Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker warns that answering harm with equal harm does not deliver justice. If everyone takes an eye in return for an eye, eventually nobody can see. Revenge spreads until the whole world is damaged, and the only result of endless retaliation is universal loss.

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