An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you, you hit back, do you not?
7 seconds sound clip from the A Clockwork Orange movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:05:48 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I don't suppose you know who that was this morning, do you?
- That was no less a personage than the minister of the interior. The new minister of the interior.
- What they call a very new broom.
- Well, these new ridiculous ideas have come at last.
- And orders are orders. Though I may say to you in confidence, I do not approve.
- An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you, you hit back, do you not?
- Why should not the state, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also?
- The new view is that we turn the bad into good.
- All of which seems to me to be grossly unjust.
[...]