"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
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A response, often misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi, is "An eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) will make the whole world blind (and toothless)."
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Mahatma Gandhi
1869 – 1948
indischer Volksführer
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