Quotes About Retribution

As the philosopher Pamela Hieronymi says, "A past wrong against you, standing in your history without apology, atonement, retribution, punishment, restitution, condemnation, or anything else that might recognize it as a wrong, makes a claim. It says, in effect, that you can be treated in this way, and that such treatment is acceptable

Revenge is the best revenge.

Treachery never goes unpunished

While we watched, he dragged over a chair and climbed on top of it to pound a small copper peg into the upper-right-hand corner of the door with the mallet, hammering away. "Every time my wife has an indiscretion I'm going to add a nail," he said to the door. I couldn't see his expression and couldn't bear to look at Cockie or Ben. "It might be the only way we'll be able to keep track.

May a cat eat him and may the devil eat the cat

I didn't have anything against them and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it.

And the justice in this world is that you don't have to break legs because somebody's broken yours.

The Lakota warrior Iron Hawk later explained why he had pounded a trooper's head into jelly. "These white men wanted it, they called for it, and I let them have it."16

Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacobís sons (Dinahís brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.

Jacobís other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ëWhy have you repaid good with evil?

Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.

If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: