Quotes About Retribution

If you are to punish a man retributively, you must injure him. If you are to reform him, you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries.

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

would be easy for any felon to say that his ancestors ought to have been hanged instead of him.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature;

a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.

Legal redress is imperfect satisfaction for having one's head broken with a brickbat.

By Strict Father morality, harsh prison terms for criminals and life imprisonment for repeat offenders are the only moral options.

Thus, in the cases of harm to children they advocate retribution, but in the cases of impermissible acts by children, they favor restitution. Thus, they too use moral accounting to characterize justice, but the details are different. T

Given the central position that the Morality of Reward and Punishment has in the conservative moral system, it is no surprise that conservatives in most cases prefer retribution over restitution as a form of justice, as a way of balancing the moral books. It is therefore no surprise that conservatives are in favor of the death penalty. It is a form of retribution, a life for a life. Liberals

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

I would like to see us find Osama Bin Laden, but let's say we did capture him. Let's say we did kill him. How much good would that do? There's still thousands of people behind him. It's this huge thing.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

SUTRA #10 As far as the laws of existence are concerned, there is no good and bad, no crime and punishment. It is just that for every action, there is a consequence.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

12 Divine Retribution and National Catastrophe Jahweh's wrath and the humiliation and destruction of the people that incurs it constitute an often repeated theme in the Biblical books. Usually the national catastrophe comes about through a violent attack by some neighboring people, especially selected as Jahweh's scourge and whip. To this theme the historiographic document

He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

Still, who knew how the old mountain took retribution for having its insides clawed out.

But just remember, the world has a way of balancing out: when someone is given back, something else must be taken away.