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Quotes About Retribution

Fuck up and I'll most likely kill you. Fuck up bad enough and I'll torture you first. -Thorn
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
~ Pat Robertson
In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.
~ Rafael Sabatini
It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.
~ John Green
Ooit heb ik hem "Oeps" horen zeggen, toen hij de oren afsneed van iemand die te veel vragen stelde. - Aloom over Will
~ John Flanagan
The Slave master named Mahmel Was a nasty kind of thug, so Stiggy dropped a rock on him and squashed him like a bug.
~ John Flanagan
Het zou zijn verdiende loon zijn als iemand hem eens doodslaat of -steekt. Misschien zal hij dan eindelijk eens ophouden met onschuldige voorbijgangers geld af te persen. - Halt
~ John Flanagan
family. Boomer deserves better than a bullet. I don't care what he did, he deserves better than that.
~ John Gilstrap
The seven extra years that Jacob had to serve Laban appear as a repayment for his treatment of Esau. His past had caught up with him, and he had to accept the results and serve Laban seven more years.
~ John H. Sailhamer
THE RETRIBUTION PRINCIPLE (RP) is the conviction that the righteous will prosper and the wicked will suffer, both in proportion to their respective righteousness and wickedness. In Israelite theology the principle was integral to the belief in God's justice.
~ John H. Walton
God did not care about people in pain. Not the little ones. There was no such thing as justice, retribution, or community; neighbors did not help neighbors and the meek would not inherit the earth. All of that was bullshit. The church, the cops, his mother—none of them could make it right, none of them had the power. For a year, Johnny had lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own.
~ John Hart
Tit for tat.
~ John Heywood
Revenge serves to cleanse the heart and soul. It has been around since the first caveman climbed down out of a tree and bashed his brother over the head for some slight of honor.
~ John Katzenbach
No estás de acuerdo en que hasta la venganza más terrible empieza con una simple pregunta?
~ John Katzenbach
are not punished for their sins, but by
~ John Lescroart
thus it is that every man, in the state of nature, has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury, which no reparation can compensate
~ John Locke
having by his fault forfeited his own life, by some act that deserves death; he, to whom he has forfeited it, may (when he has him in his power) delay to take it, and make use of him to his own service, and he does him no injury by it:
~ John Locke
There was not enough pain in Akhil's body to pay for all of this.
~ John M. Ford
When a reporter asked me the next day if I had something to say to the terrorists responsible for the mass murders of the day before, I answered, "We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't.
~ John McCain
There are so many battles to fight...so many scores to settle.
~ Elise Title
She hasn't forgiven me for getting her wife ousted from the Export Board, and she still thinks the Coalition can be appeased.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It was not Muire's first apocalypse. But then, her kind had always been better at retribution than prevention.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Punishment and revenge are two different things.
~ Elizabeth E. Wein
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
~ Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry