Quotes About Retribution

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Whatever a man does, good or evil, comes back to him someday. And he pays for everything.

That truth, by the way, is why even the horror of hell is more the outcome of a heart that seeks to disown God and play God and live eternally with those who do the same than it is retribution against evil. C. S. Lewis once wrote that "there are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'"46

Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

For we know Him Who said, Vengeance is Mine [retribution and the meting out of full justice rest with Me]; I will repay [I will exact the compensation], says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge and determine and solve and settle the cause and the cases of His people. Hebrews 10:30

God says clearly that vengeance is His, and our position is to be one of faith in Him, waiting patiently and lovingly as He works justice in our lives. When

Never met Ahhh, don't know him, don't care how big he is-if he's standing in our way? I'ma murder the son of a bitch ~ Trez 'The Shadows' page 205

They have to pay. Revenge sounds so… Cahill, Amy said. Not revenge, Dan said. Justice.

And in that unlikely moment, as she held his dagger poised high, ready to strike, Royce Westmoreland thought she was the most magnificent creature he'd ever beheld; a wild, beautiful, enraged angel of retribution, her chest rising and falling with fury as she courageously confronted an enemy who towered over her.

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Realmente, ¿nunca esperas nada a cambio de tu pareja, ni siquiera una mínima retribución? No seamos hipócritas. Si eres fiel, esperas fidelidad; si das sexo, esperas sexo; y si das ternura, no esperas un golpe. El mito del amor sin límites ha hecho que infinidad de personas establezcan relaciones totalmente dañinas e irracionales, en las que se promulga el culto al sacrificio y la abnegación sin fronteras.

Given the nearly unrestricted power of lawmaking and taxation, they ensure that actual dissent is nearly nonexistent. Every citizen has become a federal lawbreaker and we are suffocated under a tax code that few have actually read and no one fully understands. Like the Sword of Damocles, federal retribution hangs over the heads of everyone, waiting to impale anyone who steps out of line.

Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you.

De verdad la venganza puede curar una herida así?

You know what they say about vengeance?" "What's that?" "'If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two.'" "That's a very old Arab proverb." "It's Jewish, actually.

When we are wronged, we must seek revenge. It is in our culture, our bloodstream. Each time you kill or torture us, you are creating an extended family of enemies that is honor bound to take retribution. - Ibrahim Fawaz

You know, Graham, sometimes revenge is good for the soul. – Jonathan Lancaster

vengeance comes in all shapes and sizes.

Our mistakes always come back to haunt us. And eventually all debts come due.

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. ANCIENT JEWISH PROVERB

Lord my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands—if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause have robbed my foe—then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. Psalm 7:3–5, NIV