Quotes About Retribution

Vengeance is disappointing, always.

Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!

Vengeance is God's. He will repay—whether ultimately on the Day of Judgment or intermediately in this life. The point of the story? God handles all Judahs. He can discipline your abusive boss, soften your angry parent. He can bring your ex to his knees or her senses. Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution. We give too much or too little. But the God of justice has the precise prescription.

When I wake up, I'm going to kick your ass.

You have two seconds to tell me what the fuck you did to her, or I start carving you up into tiny pieces. And it won't be quick and it won't be painless. I'll make you bleed and suffer, but you won't die. You'll only wish you had," Skylar spat.

There's no denying the horror of the atrocities they inflicted, but they think they had just cause. That's rubbish, of course. All you get from an eye for an eye is a lot of people stumbling around in the dark.

I know it, but I'm going to let it go, because i'm the bigger person. Not literally but metaphorically as well. Because I believe what you put into the universe comes back at you times three, which is why I always try only to put good things, not horrible skinny bitch things, into the universe.

When Louie is upset with us for, say, forgetting to feed him, he eats any socks he might find lying around.

I wouldn't destroy an entire house to destroy one man. But I would destroy a man to destroy a house.

I would love to get my hands on whoever did this. But he already knew that he could administer all the punishment in the world, and it would have no effect, because the ones who had done this were stupid people, who had absolutely no doubt that they were in the right. No matter what they were told, no matter how many times they got caught and punished, they would go straight out and do it again. They knew they were right, and nothing would shake that faith.

Let them touch him. For every hair that's hurt I'll stop a heart.

dressed like a policeman! BUT the nurse said: I will set a mouse-trap! SO that is the story of the two Bad Mice. But they were not so very, very naughty after all, because Tom Thumb paid for everything he broke. He found a crooked sixpence

Justice demands integrity. It's to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

I was angry. I wanted blood in the dawn.

I curse you,' she said, pointing at me, 'I curse your children, your woman, your life, your grave, the air you breathe, the food you eat, the dreams you have, the ground you tread.

They shouted for mercy, but we showed none because we were still under the thrall of Æthelflæd's savage wish.

People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.

I believe Timothy McVeigh getting the death penalty for his heinous act of killing over a hundred in Oklahoma City, that could very well deter others that might want to enter into that similar conduct.

For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance

I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,' a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

No one had avenged the unnamed concubine. Jacob did not seek vengeance on Shechem. King David did not punish his son.

You cannot repay evil with evil.

afflicted, piss'd in the brook, had a thump over the head with Sampson's jawbone

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.