Quotes About Retributive

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

At the heart of which attitude lies the strange retributive instinct of our time towards the past which suggests that we know ourselves to be better than people in history because we know how they behaved and we know that we would have behaved better. There is a gigantic modern fallacy at work here.

God's justice, as Desmond Tutu insisted, is not retributive but restorative.64 It is natural that many do not understand this, because "God's love, resisted, is felt as wrath.

If the political left weren't so joyless, humorless, intrusive, taxing, overtaxing, anarchistic, controlling, rudderless, chaos-prone, pedantic, unrealistic, hypocritical, clueless, politically correct, angry, cruel, sanctimonious, retributive, redistributive, intolerant—and if the political left weren't hell-bent on expansion of said unpleasantness into all aspects of my family's life—the truth is, I would not be in your life.

Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.

Conservatives have long advanced the idea that our military can—and should—be used to shape foreign policy; our strength is the size and capacity of our military. They have advanced a retributive crime policy—punish the wrongdoers, no need to look at systemic causes of crime. The "war on terror" activates these deep frames, and politicians, the media, and the public continue to use the phrase because the conservative deep frames have become so pervasive. If

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Zak Knight "Revenge of

nemesis. 'Instead, the unions directed their wrath toward another nemesis, the European Community's Executive Commission …' (Time magazine). A nemesis (from Nemesis, the Greek goddess of vengeance) is not merely a rival or traditional enemy, but one who extracts retributive justice or is utterly unbeatable.

We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Revenge is a dish best served cold. I never used to understand that saying, but I think I finally get it.

If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.

Vengeane, Justice. Fire and Blood

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Revenge? Nah I'm just gonna sit here and let karma fu.. you up.

Questions that are designed to change other people are the wrong questions. Wrong, not because they don't matter or are based on ill intent, but because they reinforce the problem-solving model. They are questions that are the cause of the very thing we are trying to shift: the fragmented and retributive nature of our communities.