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Quotes About Retribution

Sometimes the villain becomes a victim
~ Unknown
May your horse kick stones in your enemy's teeth,
~ Mary E. Pearson
They'll pay for this. All of it. I promise. One day they'll pay.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Now he was the one who was incredulous. He drew his knife from its sheath, but he was too weak to step forward, and it spilled from his hand. His sword remained useless at his side. He looked back at me in disbelief and slid to the ground, his face twisted in pain. I walked closer and stood over him, kicking his knife away. "You were wrong, Komizar. It's much easier to kill a man than a horse.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Even justice couldn't erase scars—it only delivered on a promise to the living that evil would not go unpunished.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Ahí fue cuando empecé a disfrutar de la venganza que, sin duda, y se diga lo que se diga, es felicísima y reporta una muy grande satisfacción.
~ Unknown
You are both Goddesses of the Stars, no need to get punitive.' 'And yet, "punitive" is what we do so very well.
~ Matt Fraction
killing is not a stone you throw away, it is a boomerang that comes back and gets you on the head.
~ Matt Haig
What you going to do?" she cried. "You break my neck, and the what? You think I won't come back and haunt you? Go ahead! Make me a ghost! See what that gets you.
~ Unknown
There will be no rack, no stoning, no scorpion-filled sand pit, no bucket of fire ants. Just a sanitary plea agreement and a single blow of the gavel, and "Casino Jack" Abramoff will disappear for a few years of weight lifting and Talmudic study.
~ Matt Taibbi
They have anger. And they have nothing to lose.
~ Unknown
In response the Sun asserted that Bennett's "only chance of dying an upright man will be that of hanging perpendicularly upon a rope.")
~ Unknown
When the sins of a people reach up to heaven, the wrath of God will reach down to the earth.
~ Matthew Henry
De ce visage en feu, la voix effrayante proféra : "Pape Clément!... Chevalier Guillaume!... Roi Philippe!... Avant un an, je vous cite à paraître au tribunal de Dieu pour y recevoir votre juste châtiment ! Maudits ! Maudits ! tous maudits jusqu'à la treizième génération de vos races!...
~ Maurice Druon
La consigna para todo peronista, esté aislado o dentro de una organización, es contestar a una acción violenta con otra más violenta. Y cuando uno de los nuestros caiga, caerán cinco de los de ellos. […] Que
~ Unknown
Remember who you are." "The Sullivans have stolen from me, and I want back what's mine.
~ Megan Chance
Because karma, you know what they say about that. (They use a swear word.)
~ Melanie Marks
I'm not bloodthirsty, but...seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.
~ Melissa Marr
He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed.
~ Unknown
Punishments included hanging by the thumbs, toes barely touching the ground; bucking and gagging, being trussed like a turkey with a bit cutting the mouth; spread-eagling on a spare wheel, mocking crucifixion; flogging; and branding.
~ Unknown
In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.
~ Michael Connelly
I think much of her - I mean my mother - and of how alike we were, and how we were both destroyed by believing it was in our own hands to punish those who had done wrong to us.
~ Unknown
But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.
~ Unknown
Old saying, 'What goes around comes around.' You could have avoided ALL this turmoil IF YOU had only played fair.
~ Unknown