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Quotes About Retribution

Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.
~ Aesop
Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost.
~ Aesop
Aunque a los malvados se les castigue severamente, difícilmente cambian su naturaleza desviada.
~ Aesop
When you hit back make sure you have got the right man.
~ Aesop
Every gesture of retribution carries in it the risk of escalation. It is not an insignificant possibility that the morally right may result in the morally wrong.
~ Ágnes Heller
Evil cannot be punished, but it is self-destructive.
~ Ágnes Heller
You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.
~ Alan Moore
Soon there will be war. Millions will burn. Millions will perish in sickness and misery. Why does one death matter against so many? Because there is good and there is evil, and evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon I shall not compromise in this. But there are so many deserving of retribution ... and there is so little time.
~ Alan Moore
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
~ Alan Paton
Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.
~ Alan Paton
So when the time comes, when you have served your purpose, I swear to you I'm gonna kill you for free." And with that, Billy-Ray Sanguine disappeared into the ground. Then he popped his head back up. "Or at least half price." And he was gone again.
~ Derek Landy
Your suffering was repayment for the karmic debt incurred then
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
That was the end of Grogan... the man who killed my father, raped and murdered my sister, burned my ranch, shot my dog, and stole my Bible!
~ Diane Thomas
The disciples are not to judge. If they do so, they will themselves be judged by God. The sword wherewith they judge their brethren will fall upon their own heads. Instead of cutting themselves off from their brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
We must choose this, if we have the debt to pay. Murder in one life, and be murdered in the next. Rape in one, be raped in another. We decide if we pay now or later; balancing all that is in the great wheel of life.
~ Don Bradley
He embarrassed the family," Jacky said at his sentencing hearing. "So you killed your own brother," the judge said. "Half brother," Jacky said. "What, maybe I should have only half killed him?" The judge maxed him out.
~ Don Winslow
I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.
~ Ed Helms
What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades's underwear?
~ Rick Riordan
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.
~ Jenny Han
This is Karma. I'm a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap? - Kat
~ Jenny Han
This is Karma. I'm a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap?" My phone buzzes again. "If so meet at Judy Blue Eyes, 2am. If not, sit back and enjoy the show.
~ Jenny Han
I'm sick of waiting for karma. Karma can suck it.
~ Jenny Han
The bitch slap to end all bitch slaps.
~ Jenny Han