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Quotes About Retribution

This is Karma. I'm a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap?
~ Jenny Han
All punishment in itself is evil.
~ Jeremy Bentham
In shamanic traditions, it is invariably specified that spiritual knowledge is not marketable. Certainly, the shaman's work deserves retribution, but, by definition, the sacred is not for sale; the use of this knowledge for the accumulation of personal power is the definition of black magic.
~ Jeremy Narby
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
~ Jeremy Taylor
faciamque in eis ultiones magnas arguens in furore et scient quia ego Dominus cum dedero vindictam meam super eos
~ Jerome
I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.
~ Jerry Sittser
Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.
~ Jessica Brody
Was werden unsere Väter tun, wenn wir einmal aufstehen und vor sie hintreten und Rechenschaft fordern?
~ Erich Maria Remarque
To kill them teaches nothing," Anselmo said. "You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred. Prison is nothing. Prison only makes hatred.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Kill him, yes. Swear him, yes. But don't wound him.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Revenge may not always be sweet, but occasionally it hits a sweet spot that empowers the hurt party and allows a couple to put the past behind them. We all have a need for justice. However, it is important to distinguish between retributive justice and restorative justice. The former seeks only punishment; the latter engages in repair.
~ Esther Perel
Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to.
~ Andrew Mayne
Leviticus 24:16
~ Andrew Mayne
Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved.
~ Andrew Miller
Revenge may be sweet, but it is also most expensive
~ Andrew Roberts
Hitler and his Nazi gang have sown the wind; let them reap the whirlwind.
~ Andrew Roberts
It may turn out,' said the white-haired man a moment later, 'that their comrades or cronies may ask what befell these evil men. Tell them the Wolf bit them. The White Wolf. And add that they should keep glancing over their shoulders. One day they'll look back and see the Wolf.' When
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
And so it's an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? Blood for blood? And for that blood, more blood? A sea of blood? Do you want to drown the world in blood? O naive, damaged girl! Is that how you mean to fight evil, little witcher?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
He who has spilt blood and he who has drunk blood,' the girl said, her head still lowered, 'shall pay in blood. Within three days one shall die in the other, and something shall die in each. They shall die inch by inch, piece by piece… And when finally the iron-shod clogs wear out and the tears dry, then the last shreds will pass. Even that which never dies shall die.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Tak tys vidÄ›l, co ta tvoje zr?da dokáže. VíÅ¡ ty ale, co dokážu já? Znám takové seknutí, po kterém zasaženému z?stane jedna líc a p?lka ?elisti. M?že to pÃ…â"¢ežít, jenže si pak už, mimo jiné, nezahraje na flétnu.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis, 9:6 Verily, great self-righteousness and great blindness are needed to call the gore pouring from the scaffold justice. Vysogota
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
YHVH Makah, the one who smites and punishes sin.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
She was the very embodiment of why a man should never do wrong by a woman. Revenge could be bloody awkward.
~ Angela Verdenius
They would all be sorry... particularly the duck.
~ Angie Sage