Quotes About Retribution

daß in einem ehedem sehr bekannten psychiatrischen Lehrbuch die Frage: »Was ist Gerechtigkeit?« und die Antwort darauf: »daß der andere bestraft wird!« als ein Fall von Imbezillität angeführt werden, wogegen sie heute die Grundlage einer viel erörterten Rechtsauffassung bilden.

Mortimer had killed Judge Irwin because Judge Irwin had killed him, and I had killed Judge Irwin because Judge Irwin created me, and looking at matters in that light one could say that Mortimer and I were merely the twin instruments of Judge Irwin's protracted and ineluctable destruction. For either killing or creating may be a crime punishable by death, and the death always comes by the criminal's own hand and every man is a suicide. If a man knew how to live he would never die.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain," he said. "You can't get even measures in business like this.

Out in Montana you wouldn't be worth dirtying a man's hands on. Or his boots. So we'd handle him this way. Nice and clean.

You deserve it, she hissed. You deserve it, do you hear me?

Turnabout is fair play. Payback is a bitch.

If they cheat, can I shoot them?

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

L'hai uccisa tu, Peter, e più di così non puoi vendicarti. Una volta che li hai ammazzati non puoi fare altro». La vendetta è sempre la parte più facile. La parte più difficile arriva in seguito, cioè convivere con la consapevolezza di ciò che si è fatto, e di ciò che si è dovuto sopportare, o che è stato inflitto ai propri cari.

What the petit bâtard would order us to do to you if he awoke now is best left unsaid.

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses....

Now, if basketball had a designated foul-?shot shooter, maybe I'd consider. The other team fouls you, you get to pay them back. Boom. But that's not the way it works, in basketball or in life.

La culpa se apresura siempre hacia su complemento, el castigo, y sólo allí encuentra satisfacción.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Displacement of 'What goes around, comes around' is Zero.

wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment, its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too.

I think of how and where all the horrible people I've come across in my life ended up, and I smile.

Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you're wasting your time in appeasing the dead.

A curse burns bright on crime.

ESORAIS M' HOS EKDIKA PASKHO!

If libations were proper to pour above the slain, this man deserved, more than deserved, such sacrament. He filled our cup with evil things unspeakable and now himself come home has drunk it to the dregs.

No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.