English-German translations for an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

• Auge um Auge, Zahn um Zahn
  Die Todesstrafe folgt einem überholten Prinzip: Auge um Auge, Zahn um Zahn. The death penalty follows an old fashioned principle: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
  Auge um Auge, Zahn um Zahn – und danach wird, wie Gandhi sagte, die ganze Welt blind sein. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth – after which, as Gandhi said, everybody ends up blind.
  Da politische Perspektiven fehlen, führt die alttestamentarische Maxime "Auge um Auge, Zahn um Zahn " geradewegs zu Schrecken und Chaos. When there are no political prospects on the horizon, the Old Testament prescription of 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' leads directly to horror and to chaos.

Related words

• an eye for an eye
• have an eye for
• eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• eye for an eye
• Sanford’s White-eye
• it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kin