ProverbMoralityInternational origin

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

Meaning: Revenge only creates more suffering.

Origin: Widely credited to Mahatma Gandhi, but no one has found these words in his collected speeches or writings; it is best read as a summary of his teaching on nonviolence. It plays on the biblical law of retaliation, "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth" (Exodus 21:24).

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