Quotes About Retribution

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

I have always believed that what goes around comes around.

Slaveholders have no rights more than any other thief or pirate. They have forfeited even the right to live, and if the slave should put every one of them to the sword tomorrow, who dare pronounce the penalty disproportioned to the crime or say that the criminals deserved less than death at the hands of their long-abused chattels? (The North Star, Volume II, #7 February 9, 1849)

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Punishment.—A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The

Cine-i înv?luit de flac?ra invidiei — acela îÅŸi întoarce pân? la urm?, ca scorpionul, acul înveninat spre sine însuÅŸi.

Oh the human infatuation with guilt and retribution! The dread of and perhaps desire for punishment! How ready we are for others to hate us! Midnight in the Mirror World

Ann Fowler was sentenced to twenty lashes in 1637 for defaming a county justice, Adam Thorowgood, with the somewhat undeferential suggestion that Captain Thorowgood could "Kiss my arse.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Guys would always start by saying, 'You ain't going to get nothing today, Sharpe!' And I'd say, 'Know what? Don't be surprised if your name is on the waiver wire tomorrow. It could have been prevented. But you wanted to go there. So now when you see your name on the wire, you'll know who put it there.'

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.

Thieves must sit in prison.

When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

if the punishments a child has already received for their concerning behaviors haven't put an end to these behaviors, it must be because the punishments didn't cause the child enough pain. So, they add more pain.

The sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one.

The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.

I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome

THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH. YOU'LL PAY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEAL OR AT THE END, BUT TRUST ME, YOU WILL PAY.

what we do, good or bad, is returned in full measure in this life rather than in the hereafter.

Malicious behavior of the past, present, and future, require justice.