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Quotes About Retribution

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.
~ Kamala Harris
Campuses should be places where students are able to make mistakes without fear of retribution. If there is no margin for error, it is impossible to receive a meaningful education.
~ Kirsten Powers
You should be held accountable for your actions.
~ Rozonda Thomas
In debates over the death penalty, liberals rank Absolute Goodness over Retribution, and conservatives tend to prefer Retribution: a life for a life. Suppose
~ George Lakoff
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
~ Bill Maher
I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.
~ Cheech Marin
The fans in Lake Charles, La., were crazy. The Freebirds would get their tires cut, so they started driving to the police station and having the police bring them to the show. The fans then cut the tires on the police car that brought The Freebirds.
~ Jim Cornette
Frankly, Pedro Almodóvar's recent box office hit, Volver, is the first movie I've seen in which a young woman's retaliation against sexual violence doesn't ultimately boomerang around to destroy her
~ Sarah Stillman
One gets paid back in the way one deserves.
~ Sarah Waters
In each instance Jesus advocates grace beyond retribution and expectation. He does not advocate passivity but active generosity that deconstructs the system because of the presence of the kingdom. Surrendering one's rights for the good of the other manifests the Jesus Creed and its variant, the Golden Rule
~ Scot McKnight
Justice is red.
~ Scott Lynch
I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began.
~ Scott Lynch
Come, then! Face Ravelle! The gods have sent your doom, motherfuckers!
~ Scott Lynch
May they all be stricken with the screaming fire-shits." He sipped his
~ Scott Lynch
I shall grind your bones to powder," he hollered, transfixing the three Gentlemen Bastards with his gleaming eyes. "And with that dust I'll make cement for paving stones, and for a hundred years to come you'll have no rest beneath the crush of strange wheels and the tramp of strange boots! Drunkards will make their unclean water upon you, and I shall laugh to think of it
~ Scott Lynch
It's a throat-slashing, shark-feeding, off-to-meet-the-gods offence, clear?
~ Scott Lynch
74. In 1944 a 16-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio won an essay contest on the theme 'what to do with Hitler after the war' by submitting a single sentence. "Put him in black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.
~ Scott Matthews
He knows he can trample down you Danes to his heart's content, humiliate and murder without fear of reprisal. But he will find me different. I will show him how Geats shape to kill in the heat of battle.
~ Seamus Heaney
I feel like I've been victimised. It's because of who I am. I've done my time for past mistakes, if it wasn't me there wouldn't be a reaction.
~ John Hopoate
When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.
~ Austin Grossman
He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.
~ David Haye
This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
~ Terry Pratchett
It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.
~ Toby Keith
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
~ Walter Scott