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Quotes About Retribution

I hope you burn in whatever hell you believe in.
~ Derek Landy
You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
~ Nelson Mandela
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
~ W. H. Auden
If you go on teaching people that life is cheap, and leave them to rot in ghettos and jails, they may one day feel justified in coming back to rob and kill you. Duh!
~ Jello Biafra
Then tell them, faintly, 'I heard screaming'. Men with a history of violence live in fear of retribution.
~ Jennifer Egan
There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Tempting fate was one thing; baiting Pack Justice was entirely another.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Some people weren't worth the breath it took to shoot them down.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Sometimes they return to exact revenge.
~ Jennifer McMahon
the dead can blame
~ Jennifer McMahon
God disposes all. From the highest to the lowest extreme of a man's scope, wherever justice and retribution can reach him, so can grace.
~ Ellis Peters
Des hommes poussaient, une armée noire, vengeresse, qui germait lentement dans les sillons, grandissant pour les récoltes du siècle futur, et dont la germination allait faire bientôt éclater la terre.
~ Émile Zola
Homens brotavam, um exército negro, vingador, que germinava lentamente nos sulcos da terra, crescendo para as colheitas do século futuro, cuja germinação não tardaria em fazer rebentar a terra.
~ Émile Zola
Justice!…The time has come! Justice!
~ Émile Zola
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
~ Emily Bronte
Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.
~ Emily Bronte
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive." "No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall," he returned.
~ Emily Bronte
I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!
~ Emily Bronte
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
~ Emily Bronte
It stands to reason that those who assault nature will suffer at her hands in the end.
~ Emma Donoghue
It was Anubis who set your heart on the scales against the Feather of Truth, and if your crimes weighed it down at all, it was thrown to the crocodile-faced demoness Ammit like any other scrap of meat. Only the clean-hearted got to walk forever in the Field of Reeds.
~ Emma Donoghue
Punching - 2 shillings Both eyes blacked - 4 shillings Nose and jaw broke - 10 shillings Jacked out (knocked out with a blackjack) - 15 shillings Ear chewed off - same as previous Leg or arm broke - 19 shillings Shot in leg - 25 shillings Stab - same as previous Doing the Big Job - 3 pounds and up
~ Eoin Colfer
Humm humm haa. Rahmumm humm haa,' chantte Opal ter afronding. 'Vrede in mij, verdraagzaamheid om mij heen, vergeving op mijn pad. Goed Mervall, laat maar zien waar die smerige mens zit, zodat ik hem zijn eigen organen kan laten opvreten.
~ Eoin Colfer
revenge knows no boundaries!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey