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

  • occhio per occhio, dente per denteLa pena di morte segue un principio d'altri tempi: occhio per occhio, dente per dente. The death penalty follows an old fashioned principle: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Occhio per occhio, dente per dente – dopo di che, come disse Gandhi, tutti finiscono ciechi. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth – after which, as Gandhi said, everybody ends up blind. Dobbiamo combattere il terrorismo, ma non adottando il principio, per quanto biblico, della rappresaglia "occhio per occhio, dente per dente”. We must combat terrorism, but not according to the retaliatory, albeit biblical, principle of 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'.

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