Quality Quote: An Eye for an Eye

Quality Quote: “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.” Attributed variously to Gandhi, Louis Fischer, Henry Powell Spring and Martin Luther King. All have offered different iterations, but the principle is the same: violent retaliatory action escalates situations, leaving all parties worse off.

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Related guide: Nonconformance and corrective action, on fixing causes instead of blaming people.

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