Quotes About Retribution

That would hang us, every mother's son.

My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,Of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter!

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood:Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Let them hang themselves in their own straps.

Foul deeds will rise,Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause,But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard...

But she didn't. Didn't because she couldn't. None of those people had in any way harmed her or her family. And had she tried to hurt one of them, God would have somehow intervened.

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.

Quando um mosquito se deixa apanhar numa teia, não pode querer mal à aranha.

There isn't much justice in this world. Perhaps that's why its so satisfying to occasionally make some.

you got your just desserts

The truth was, I didn't feel sorry for Billy. He teased a dog and got his fingers bitten off. Fuck him. Fuck everybody.

The one Kingdom comes in two stages: a temporary heavenly reign, followed by an eternal earthly reign, the two being separated by a single Parousia when the High King descends from heaven to consummate all things in final reward and retribution.

I hate all the white people. ... You are thieves and liars. You have taken away our land and made us outcasts.

It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices -- including the unjust suppression of inventors. Exposing the skeletons in the closet serves to enlighten, but getting off-message with retribution will be counter-productive.