Quotes About Retribution

You know what you should have done, added Luker, you should have ripped his balls off and stapled them to the back of his throat.

If the law was a temple, it was built on human misery and jails were the cornerstones.

Michael Punke

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

If you have to injure someone, then make it so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.

rather not give a serial killer a second chance in life, for he might be giving someone else a first chance of losing his life.

In my opinion, an interesting switch had taken place. Boetie had been a passive victim of emotional, sexual and physical abuse as a child. As an adult he identified with the aggressor and did to others what had been done to him. When he was imprisoned he could no longer vent his anger and suffering and reverted back to the role of the passive victim, allocating the role of active persecutors to his victims.

Paid him in his own coin.

I'm sorry to hear that," DeMarco said, although he wasn't sorry. As far as he was concerned Tony deserved to die alone.

Shall we exploit because we have been exploited,

I had read the baby books, of course, but could remember literally nothing but one fact: "babies are born without kneecaps." What the hell was I supposed to do with that information? Invite some gangster to take retribution against me by kneecapping my baby and then laugh when he realizes it's physically impossible? That was no good to me; I would have needed to lay the groundwork ages ago!

He who poured water on the ground seizes the mighty in misery.

If you avert your face from violence, who then shall punish wrong doing ?

Truly, he who is yonder will be a living god, Punishing the evildoer's crime.

There was retribution for what I had done, For it is evil to destroy, Useless to restore what one has damaged, To rebuild what one has demolished.

He will find no favor on the day of woe.

To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy

A woman always has her revenge ready.

If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," there would be very few hon. gentlemen in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless.

Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punishment.