Quotes About Retribution

John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Wouldn't it be simply marvellous if he were to hang for his lies and calumnies against me--the very fate he had in mind for me?

That death is not to be judged an evil which is the end of a good life; for death becomes evil only by the retribution which follows it.

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

When a general gave unwanted advice at a meeting, Saddam ordered him to stand, and shot him six times. —FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT, SADDAM HUSSEIN WEB HIT

Revenge is nothing but the dark side of the sense of fairness.

Terrible es la venganza de aquel capricho del destino que tan rara vez desciende hasta los mortales, cuando cae injustamente en manos de quien no sabe hacer uso de él. Todas las virtudes burguesas, la prudencia, la obediencia, el empeño y la discreción se funden y se derriten impotentes ante las brasas de aquel gran momento del destino que solo reclama al genio y que forjará de él una imagen inmortal.

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.

It was a simple truth he had understood for years, people hurt others when they are hurt, and hurting them back won't make a damn difference.

You messed up with the wrong Angel. My weapon is a double-edge sword. One side of the blade represents Truth and the other represents Karma.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Joe learned to view the comic book hero in his formfitting costume, not as a pulp absurdity but as a celebration of the lyricism of the naked (albeit tinted) human form in motion. It was not all violence and retribution in the early stories of Kavalier Clay; Joe's work also articulated the simple joy of unfettered movement, of the able body, in a way that captured the yearnings not only of his crippled cousin but of an entire generation of weaklings, stumblebums, and playground goats.

That's extortion," Cerrone said. "No, asshole, that's justice.

I nodded and made a notation on my legal pad. It read Got you, motherfucker.

Bosch liked short prosecutors. They were always trying to make up for something and usually it was the defendant who ended up paying the price.

Maybe sometimes vengeance is just as good as justice," he said. "They're pretty much the same if you ask me.

we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.