Quotes About Retribution

From the beginning, the highway has always lacked grace-those who worship desert gods know them to favor retribution over the tender dove of forgiveness. In Desolation, doves are at the bottom of the food chain. Tohono O'Odham poet Ofelia Zepeda has pointed out that rosaries and Hail Marys don't work out here. You need a new kind of prayers, she says to negotiate with this land.

What the devil happened to you? Richard asked with amazement as he led Robert to the bed. I was shot, Daniel said. Richard frowned, but Robert snapped, It was probably the Fates punishing you. Punishing me for what? he asked with surprise. For breaking Suzette's heart, he growled. She was crushed when she got your letter.

And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen." Jenny blinked. "I'm no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead?

forgiveness is a religious imperative: forgive those who trespass against you. But it is also a very practical strategy based on the belief that there are profound limits to what the formal mechanisms of retribution can accomplish.

I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.

If your success is as a result of a trail of tears & hurt you left in anothers life, Karmas' watching.

he recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come

The crime is the punishment.

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

The next day the sorcerer, tied to the tail of a savage mule loaded with nuts, was broken into as many pieces as there were nuts upon the mule's back.[1]

You reap what you sow.

Jennifer's father, Randy Ertman, summarized our feelings toward Medellin in his statement to the court when the last three defendants were sentenced to death: "I hope you rot in hell. I honest to God mean that. I hope they rot in hell, sir. I hope to be there when you die, you sick pieces of (censored). Thank you, Your Honor, for allowing me to speak. I appreciate it, sir."15 That doesn't move the story along; I just admired his eloquence.

Oh mighty King, you, who are so powerful you can take hundreds of thousands of lives at your whim. Show me how powerful you really are-give back just one life you've taken. Asoka (pg 82).

Revenge is a dish best served cold

The urge for retribution, therefore, seems to depend upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior. Despite

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

ABHORRING  (ABHO'RRING)   The object of abhorrence. This seems not to be the proper use of the participial noun. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.BibleIsaiah,lxvi. 44.

Wicked people, I believe, my dear, are the severest punishers of those wicked people, who administer not to their own particular gratifications. Can mercy be expected from such? Mercy is a virtue.

Tomorrow, I'm putting my future on the line. If you fuck me over, I'll cut out your heart and eat it.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.

there is a life to come – wait and see – and that in the life to come we will feel the pains that we inflicted on others. We will suffer all that we made them suffer, for after death all experience is reversed.

Wagner: Yet elocution makes the orator; I'm far behind, I feel it more and more. Faust: Seek thou an honest retribution! Be thou no motley, jingling fool! It needs but little elocution To speak good sense by reason's rule. It ye've a message to deliver, Need ye for words be hunting ever?