Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Eye for an eye" in English language version.
Satyagraha is the exact opposite of the policy of an-eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye which ends in making everybody blind.
The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
If in the present age we were to go back to the old time of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,' there would be very few hon. gentlemen [sic:Honourable Gentlemen] in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless.
In the criminal law the ruling principle was the lex talionis. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, limb for limb was the penalty for assault upon an amelu.
