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Quotes About Retribution

Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!
~ LeBron James
You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow." "Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.
~ MaryJanice Davidson
Slade had to kill several men—some say three, others say four, and others six—but the world was the richer for their loss.
~ Mark Twain
They will be scourged; and I, whom they have comforted and kindly entreated, must look on and see the great wrong done; it is strange, so strange! that I, the very source of power in this broad realm, am helpless to protect them. But let these miscreants look well to themselves, for there is a day coming when I will require of them a heavy reckoning for this work. For every blow they strike now they shall feel a hundred then.
~ Mark Twain
Sometimes when life robs you, you have to rob it back.
~ Markus Zusak
Nos aferramos a la información equivocada acerca de quien hizo qué, o culpamos a unos individuos y a unos grupos de un gran problema sistémico que ellos no causaron. Sobrevaloramos agravios triviales y, al mismo tiempo, infravaloramos otros que sí son importantes. Nos obsesionamos por nuestro propio estatus relativo (o por el de nuestro grupo). Pensamos que la venganza resolverá los problemas creados por el delito o la ofensa original, aun cuando no sea así.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
La città - è la città che dovrà guarirli, con lame di coltello e automobili, manganelli, colpi d'arma da fuoco. I cavi allentati e le pericolose costruzioni in muratura della città telecinetica.
~ Martin Amis
el castigo sólo produce placer a quien lo administra si la víctima tiene tiempo de conocer sus principales detalles y la personalidad de su ejecutor.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.
~ Arthur Miller
They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.
~ Arundhati Roy
How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.
~ Arundhati Roy
We want to see them punished.
~ Atul Gawande
judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.
~ Auberon Waugh
Og la oss ikke anklage Herren om vi ser små uskyldige barn lide. Ingen kan vite hvorfor, men den guddommelige rettferdighet lar oss ane at det er på grunn av forbrytelser begått før ankomsten til denne verden.
~ August Strindberg
God say different things. Say, "I will smite my enemies." Then he tell you to, "Turn the other cheek." That don't get you nothing but two broke jaws.
~ August Wilson
There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
~ Ayn Rand
And if you take away my life," she threatened, "God will give you blood to drink.
~ Stacy Schiff
retribution for the death of comrades who had perished because they were sent to that death…
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Have it compose a poem—a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!!
~ Stanis?aw Lem
I used the walker for a while, then graduated to a wooden cane like the ones we used to crack people over the head with. Talk about karma.
~ Stanley Tookie Williams
If you ever do this again, I'll tell everyone. And if that doesn't work, I'll blind you.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Strife's sister NEMESIS was the embodiment of Retribution, that remorseless strand of cosmic justice that punishes presumptuous, overreaching ambition – the vice that the Greeks called hubris.
~ Stephen Fry
After all I've done for you? Medea kept her voice steady. 'Who was it who helped you defeat the fire-breathing oven and the great spent of the Grove of Area? Who was it who overcame Talos of Crete...' Yes, yes, yes. But...
~ Stephen Fry