Quotes About Retribution

Kill them all, and you are a god.

Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.

When I say "I am filled with rage," the criminal says, "But why?"And when I blow things up and make life generally unlivable for the criminal (is my life not unlivable too?) the criminal is shocked, surprised. But nothing can erase my rage- not an apology, not a sum of money, not the death of the criminal- for this wrong can never be made right, and only the impossible can make me still: can a way be found to make what happened not have happened?

Isn't that the last straw; for not only did we have to suffer the unspeakableness of slavery, but the satisfaction to be had from "We made you bastards rich" is taken away, too.

Vengeance does not satisfy. It sometimes gluts, but it does not satisfy. The duelist, angered by insult or wrong, challenges his enemy to a duel, runs his sword through the body of his opponent, leaves the life-blood oozing out of his arteries, wipes his sword, and walks off in the brightness of the morning. Satisfied? Never! Nemesis follows him; the vision is ever before his eyes; he has taken his vengeance, and the vengeance itself nestles in his heart and breeds future penalty.

I was chosen, too, you fatherless son of a whore. [...] But it's my people at the Cockerel that I'll kill you for, and for what you did to Alec. For the runners and keeks you used and betrayed, the innocents who've died at your order. Hell, I'll kill you for the sheer fun of it. Come on, Lord Eater of Shit. Let's get this over with.

A man does not come at what is mine, harm it, and walk away unscathed.

Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to even do anything untowared, he just crawled out of his grave and she staked him. That is just not right. She is taking out her problems with that Angel fellow on a vampire, that is what she is doing.

There are two basic kinds of punishment. In this chapter, I have focused on one of them: peer punishment, the kind used by the Mafia, or in instances when people take the law into their own hands.

I think you're a terrible person and I hope you get some psychiatric help. Go to hell.

vowing to take back what has been stolen.

Our dead came for their vengeance regardless of witnesses

Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names

Revenge proves its own executioner.

The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

and not a year ago?' 'I should have, but I figured the courts down here would finally realize they had the wrong guy. I just got out of prison in Kansas, and a few days ago I saw in the paper where they were getting ready to execute Drumm. Surprised

Come back to his house, and you'll leave in a hearse.

He felt like his victims were now crawling out of their graves and lining up, zombie-like, to come after him. He was living in a state of stunned disbelief, his thoughts a mush of rampant flashes, his debates raging over strategies that changed by the hour.

If he hath offended in any sort, we shall exhibit the said David before the lords of Parliament to be punished.

Turning to Darnley, she demanded, "Why have you caused to do this wicked deed to me

Huntly had planned to attack the town, burn down the house where he was staying and assassinate Maitland in his sleep.

his personal sacrifice was limited, but his family lost all their property when he was outlawed.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson