Quotes About Retribution

She could hardly think of a punishment she would enjoy more.

Dat heeft die klootzak verdiend... - Vittoria Massi, vader van Giuliana na het doodsteken van Rinaldo di Chimici

The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes.

Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?

They call this retribution. Hateful name! When that word is pronounced, I know greater and more horrid punishments are going to be inflicted than the gloomiest tyrant has ever invented to satiate his utmost revenge.

My daily vows rose for revenge—a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured.

When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed. They call this retribution. Hateful name! When that word is pronounced, I know greater and more horrid punishments are going to be inflicted than the gloomiest tyrant has ever invented to satiate his utmost revenge.

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother, for, though it be hidden from man, it will be found that God is the avenger of all such.

Such would have been our life, had we not committed our crime which changed all things for us. And it was our curse which drove us to our crime.

Nadie puede escapar de la justicia, nada puede ser no ganado y no pagado en el universo

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Let the South," I said slowly, "spend every single penny of their treasure, which colored people have earned for them. Let them spill a drop of their own blood for every drop of colored people's blood they've spilled or contaminated. I have no pity and contemplate no mercy for the so-called bleeding Confederacy.

The desire for revenge was not unnatural, but it could curdle and embitter the soul, and it often destroyed the avenger. Was it not perhaps infinitely wiser to abjure the wicked and abandon them to the fates, and trust in God to make retribution in His own good time? He found himself saying, almost inaudibly, 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay, sayeth the Lord.

God was good. Her mother had told her that God was Goodness. That He was understanding and forgiving. Emma did not believe in a wrathful God, the God of retribution and revenge that the Methodist minister warned about in his sermons on Sundays. Her mother had said God was Inconceivable Love

Bad people need to pay a price. And the price should be high. ~Billy Summers

Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

And after we've killed

what we sow, we must inevitably reap.

Castigation is a doom which achieves itself. In punishing yourself, you come to merit punishment.

Crime is one of the many methods justice may select.

Also, a state without an effective police and judiciary had to make a little punishment go a long way.

The reason the punishment should fit the crime, for example, is not to balance some mystical scale of justice but to ensure that a wrongdoer stops at a minor crime rather than escalating to a more harmful one.