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Quotes About Retribution

Alison was great at keeping secrets, but she was also great at punishing people with the truth." - Jason Dilaurentis, Pretty Little Liars
~ Sara Shepard
Good-bye, Nisha, I added my farewell to my sister's. I promise, whoever did this to us is going to pay.
~ Sara Shepard
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
~ Tacitus
The next time you drop my jacket, I'll drop you!
~ Vince McMahon
Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.
~ John Dryden
I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges.
~ Willie D
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
~ W. S. Gilbert
By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again.
~ Jack Bauer
The fact is, it is seldom indeed that any wrong one suffers is not thoroughly foreshadowed by wrongs one has done.
~ Marilynne Robinson
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
~ Mario Puzo
For the Sicilian believes that vengeance is the only true justice, and that it is always merciless.
~ Mario Puzo
Sá»± tr? thù là má»™t m?n ?n càng ?? nguá»™i càng ngon.
~ Mario Puzo
You know what Confucius said?" "Remind me." " Ã¢â'¬ËœBefore you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' 
~ Marisha Pessl
There were splits within families over the present war, where one son had sided with Saigon and the other with Hanoi. The "liberation" of Hue suspended law and order and upended basic decency, giving retribution an official stamp of approval. It tapped a deep vein of savagery. In
~ Mark Bowden
The system did not punish offenders the way she believed they ought to be punished.
~ Mark Bowden
He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.
~ Mark Gatiss
And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the other cheek.
~ Anthony Burgess
An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.
~ Anthony Burgess
Birisi sana vurursa, sen de ona vurursun, deÄŸil mi? Siz gaddar serseriler de devlete çok sert vuruyorsunuz, öyleyse devlet niye ayn? ÅŸekilde kar??l?k vermesin. Ama yeni bak?? aç?s? buna hay?r diyor. Yeni bak?? aç?s?na göre, kötüleri iyiye dönüÅŸtürmeliymiÅŸiz. (syf. 82)
~ Anthony Burgess
Violence makes violence
~ Anthony Burgess
Well, then she had to be tolchoked proper with one of the weights for the scales, and then a fair tap with a crowbar they had for opening cases, and that brought out red like an old friend. So we had her down on the floor and a rip of her platties for fun and a gentle bit of the boot to stop her moaning.
~ Anthony Burgess
She also bit off a little toe from the child's left foot to establish a mark of his identity.
~ Anthony C. Yu
If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!
~ Anthony Trollope