Quotes About Restitution

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

most medieval governments threatened extremely harsh penalties on bankers unable to make restitution in such cases: as witnessed by the example of Francesch Castello, beheaded in front of his own bank in Barcelona in 1360.76

Go home. Let me do my community service.

True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

They believed that this world was fallen but that restitution would be provided elsewhere, in an afterlife. I believed that this world was fallen and that there was no afterlife.

I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season.

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. Always take back everything if you possibly can.

If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

Royalty is the most wretched condition imaginable; for there is no possibility of setting one's self free from it, since how can any sovereign command sufficient resources to make restitution of property to those from whom he has taken it, or how can he make atonement in bonds to those whom he has cast into prison, or how can he offer a sufficient number of lives to die for those whom he has put to death?

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

If the right usurped from us is given back to us we shall take it, otherwise we shall go on claiming it.

Oh, I'm sure an apology will help," Riley said, rolling her eyes. "Hey, we're sorry we stole the past eleven thousand years of your life, here's a gold watch. Have a nice day.

There's something wrong in a nation where six million black men are not allowed to vote because they were convicted of felonies. They've paid their dues to society, but yet their right to vote is not reinstated.

Citizens are urged to tolerate cheerfully any minor inconvenience this may cause them; your right of privacy will be respected in every way possible; your right of free movement may be interrupted temporarily, but full economic restitution will be made.

it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.

Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.

She owed him nothing - less than nothing.

What did Kevin Ye get arrested for anyway? Didn't he steal a car?" "He stole the driver's ed car." I laughed. Then I saw how Adam was looking at me. "He gave it back." "They MAKE you give stuff back, Lori, after they arrest you for stealing it.