Quotes About Retribution

Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

He shall bite the dust!

from the middle-middle classes, whose highest desire seemed shelter – continuous shelter – not a lair in the darkness to be reached against fear, but shelter everywhere and always, until the existence of earth and sky is forgotten, shelter from poverty and disease and violence and impoliteness; and consequently from joy; God slipped this retribution in.

There'll be no more music, Father. But there'll be this!" He stepped into the dark, picked up the knife, and held it under their noses. "Go home. Tell your people what you saw and heard here tonight. And tell 'em that anyone we catch on these roads after dark anymore... this is what they'll get. Now that I know we're never to see the face o' God, we have nothing to lose. So, make sure you have your message right, Father, 'cause there'll be no other warning.

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house!

Who steals my purse steals trash," he said, "but who steals my sword steals honor itself, and him will I harry by wood and by water till I cleave him from his brainpan to his thighbone!

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

My karma ran over your dogma.

Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

God shall smite thee, thou whited wall.

Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him [Sisera], and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground; for he was fast asleep, and weary: so he died.

They hanged Haman on the gallows.

The Lord reward him according to his works.

My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.