Quotes About Reparation

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.

If you visibly compromise someone or hurt someone, or hurt their vision, you're not supposed to still just stand there and wait for them to come to you.

The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.

Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.

for every untimely death, every man cut down in his vigour and strength without time for repentance and reparation, is one corpse too many.

the sins of slavery are given short shrift.

You see it every week, when a player makes a mistake, his first action is to try and put it right, and nine times out of 10 the first thing they do when they've made a mistake is take out everyone in front of them because they want to make amends.

The antonym of "forgetting" is not "remembering", but justice .

El daño que le hizo pertenece a su vida anterior y, aunque ahora se echara a sus brazos o se arrodillara ante ella pidiéndole perdón y piedad, ya no habría cómo reparar lo sucedido. [...] y bien hará ella en no permitir que ese dolor nuevo y viejo la guíe hasta él, porque curarla ya no va a poder hacerlo, y volverla a enfermar, no se lo piensa permitir.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

the claim that Whites should not be blamed for the past injustices of their ancestors misses a vital point. They still benefit from the past injustices of their forebears!

Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.

Well, I'm sorry. Again. For like the millionth time. If there's anything I can do ... I'd offer to pay for your dry cleaning, but you're wearing a T-shirt, and that's just, like weird - I mean, who dry-cleans their T-shirts?

Words do not pay for my dead people.

So I tried to make what amends I could for being what I was...

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

If a man has tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?

Only Europeans and their descendants remember guilt. So only Europeans and their descendants have continuously to atone for it.

Will you for God's sake get off that subject?" Julian said. When he got on a bus by himself, he made it a point to sit down beside a Negro, in reparation as it were for his mother's sins.

There are some farmers who have been terribly discriminated against by the USDA. They've suffered tremendous losses and pain and anguish, and they deserve to be compensated.

I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.

government finally made amends for its actions at Ruby Ridge.