Quotes About Retribution

Los provocadores, los tiranos, todos los que, de un modo u otro, ofenden al prójimo, son reos, no sólo del mal que cometen, sino también de la perversión que llevan al ánimo de los ofendidos.

Le parole dell'iniquo che è forte penetrano e sfuggono. Egli può adirarsi che tu mostri sospetto di lui, e nello stesso tempo farti sentire che quello di che tu sospetti è certo: può insultare e chiamarsi offeso, schernire e domandar ragione, atterrire e lagnarsi, essere sfacciato e irreprensibile.

Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?" cried the boy. "Of course," said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world.

It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.

Social justice is collective injustice. Actual justice is administered to individuals on the basis of their actions. Social justice is retributive punishment meted out by one party upon another group to enact vengeance and express a nurtured grievance.

No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

And therefore I ordered him to be instantly hanged.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

Consequences are unpitying.

If I'm going to get suspended, I want to hit the guy.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.

El mejor modo de castigar a los humanos, es dándoles lo que tanto reclaman.

The Crucified and Risen Christ uses the mistakes of the past to create a positive future, a future of redemption instead of retribution. He does not eliminate or punish the mistakes. He uses them for transformative purposes.

Once a person recognizes that Jesus's mission (obvious in all four Gospels) was to heal people, not punish them, the dominant theories of retributive justice begin to lose their appeal and their authority.

That as long as we keep God imprisoned in a retributive frame instead of a restorative frame, we really have no substantial good news;

you can never predict how you will behave when you stand before the tower of vengeance you have erected.

Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person!