Quotes About Restitution

The law of the sin offering reminds us that we can do harm unintentionally, and this can have consequences, both physical and psychological. The best way of putting things right is to make a sacrifice: to do something that costs us something.

I took responsibility for the illegal actions, the potential for violence in my past actions, which I regret.

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.

If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.

I deeply apologize to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard. No one should ever be mistreated this way. I want you to know that we take full responsibility, and we will work to make it right. It's never too late to do the right thing.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

It's time for the Americans to say they're going to live up to their obligations and return the dollars that have been illegally taken from Canadians.

When robbery is done in open daylight by sanction of the law, as it is done today, then any act of honor or restitution has to be hidden underground.

I wondered if DSS had anything like Step 9, where you eventually have to apologize to all the kids you've screwed over.

the ratification process may have been flawed, yet he certified the amendment passed anyway, that was fraud. Which meant that every single cent collected through a wrongfully adopted 16th Amendment was subject to suit and restitution. Those

Everything you took from you gonna give it back

In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology.

A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy.

Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep. If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft.

Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.

Like revenge, the fantasy of forgiveness often becomes a cruel torture, because it remains out of reach for most ordinary human beings. Folk wisdom recognizes that to forgive is divine. And even divine forgiveness, in most religious systems, is not unconditional. True forgiveness cannot be granted until the perpetrator has sought and earned it through confession, repentance, and restitution.

helplessness constitutes the essential insult of trauma, and that restitution requires the restoration of a sense of efficacy and power.

Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.

We always pay for the sins of our past—remember that.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The Duke lacrosse case put North Carolina in a bad light, internationally. It was important that we go in and right the wrongs of that case, and I think we did.

I was a cheap criminal; I did many, many wrongs. I admit that. Of course, if I could tell each person I'm sorry, I would.

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.