Two wrongs don't make a right

Meaning: Responding to wrongdoing with more wrongdoing is never justified.

Origin: English proverb first recorded in 1734, later echoed by Gandhi.

Translations

• French: Deux torts ne font pas un droit (literally: Two wrongs don't make a right)
• Spanish: Dos males no hacen un bien (literally: Two evils don't make a good)
• Japanese: 目には目をでは世界は盲目になる (Me ni wa me wo de wa sekai wa mōmoku ni naru) (literally: An eye for an eye makes the world blind)

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