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MAHATMA GHANDI
hey can someone please explain this quote for me
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
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it means that if you retaliate to someones actions, then it can turn out bad.
just like two wrongs dont make a right.
so hes saying that if everyone retaliates when someone does bad to them, then there wont be any good left in the world
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there is a quote that is "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"
basically; like if you kill someone; you should be killed.
what the quote your asking about means that if person A (lets stay with the eyes) pokes out Person B's eye; then Person B can poke out Person A's eye; who then has the right to do it back to them. And then Person B can poke out someone else's eye cause it was done to him.
It's like a continious cirlce that keeps going on...a lot of times refred to when talking about the death pentally.
You kill a murdered; but then you should die because you took a life as well.
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He used it as a metaphor, an eye for an eye is to do something equally bad to someone who has wronged you.
He believed in turning the other cheek and loving our neighbours. If we lash out in anger we eventually become immune to the hate and resentment that is building up in the world -the 'blind' part.
If we all respond in this way things will never get better and we would all eventually spiral down into being 'blind' from retaliations.
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