Quotes About Retribution

Evil gains work their punishment.

Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.

Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

Not many people remember this, but in the first 'Death Wish' film, Charles Bronson doesn't actually go after the people that hurt his family: he just goes after every punk. He just blows them all away.

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.

You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

Search all you will for retribution or meaning to your life, but until you find God, you live in vain.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. JOHN F. KENNEDY

Duval's body, swinging from a gibbet, gave wholesome warning to those he had seduced; and his head was displayed on a pike, from the highest roof of the buildings, food for birds and a lesson to sedition.

Never to forgive—never to forget

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

The girls all know the score. No escape. No surrender. No mercy. We got to kill every last rat bastard one of them, every last one. Not for revenge. Not because they deserve it. not because it'll make the world a better place. We need a heap of bloody bodies so when the mob boss, Wallenquist, looks over his charts of profits and losses, he'll see what it cost him to mess with the girls of Old Town.

We're only being punished because you reported us. Otherwise nothing would have happened to us, even if they found out what we did. Can that be called justice?

I believe in karma; what you do will come back.

Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?

unite all the Greeks and lead them in avenging the wrongs inflicted by the Persians

Our enemy is man with his arrogance and greed. The woodsman in particular. Destroyer of trees. Clearer of land. Owner of fire. While he chops and burns and builds, we terrorize his wife, surrounding her as she goes for water. We howl outside his windows half the night, and if that doesn't drive him away we take him out, leaving just a few bones so the message is clear. This is our forest. Perfect before you came. Perfect again when all your kind is dead.

she robbed me blind, the bitch!...and she's still at it! everyone who's ever done me wrong, robbed me, repudiated me, pillaged me has never suffered...and never will suffer! you could call it their reward!...robbing me brings you good luck!

If anybody doesn't want to fight or murder, grab 'em, tear 'em to pieces! Kill them in thirteen juicy ways. For a starter, to teach them how to live, rip their guts out of their bodies, their eyes out of their sockets, and the years out of their filthy slobbering lives!