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Quotes About Retribution

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
You shall be led from hence to the place whence you came…and your body shall be opened, your heart and bowels plucked out, and your privy members cut off and thrown into the fire before your eyes.
~ Bill Bryson
In 1586 Elizabeth ordered that Anthony Babington, a wealthy young Catholic who had plotted her assassination, should be made an example of. Babington was hauled down from the scaffold while still conscious and made to watch as his abdomen was sliced open and the contents allowed to spill out. It was by this time an act of such horrifying cruelty that it disgusted even the bloodthirsty crowd.
~ Bill Bryson
Brad Parscale regarding a Trump 2024 POTUS run: "I don't think he sees it as a comeback. He sees it as vengeance.
~ Bob Woodward
Butterfield wanted out. Anticipating reelection, he heard Nixon tell Haldeman on several occasions that it would be, more than ever, a time for vengeance. "Now, we're going to get them, Bob," Nixon said. "Now we're going to nail those sons of bitches." The atmosphere of retribution aimed at Democrats, the media, the antiwar movement and any perceived Nixon opponent was pervasive.
~ Bob Woodward
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution after death - then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.
~ Boris Pasternak
There were some things in life that could never be forgiven or forgotten. - Scott Harvath
~ Brad Thor
Nan told me Clegg had been hanged for stealing a book, but the charge Robert Findhelm brought against him was not theft. The charge Findhelm brought against him was book-murder.
~ Susanna Clarke
Because you deserved it! Because you should know what it feels like! How bad it hurts, you self-centered asshole!
~ Sylvia Day
Then I thought, No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
~ Sylvia Plath
If a man stole my dinner, I might let him run; but if he stole my horse, he and I and death would play hide-and-seek! ~~ Ranjoor Singh
~ Talbot Mundy
Man, just so you know,...I am NEVER getting on your bad side. Vince forced half a grin. Like we say in Chicago. She had it coming.
~ Tami Hoag
I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it. She looked back at him. I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.
~ Tamora Pierce
Stefan spat. Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
~ Tamora Pierce
He deserves to die - but do you deserve to kill him?
~ Tamora Pierce
The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter.
~ Tanith Lee
I will shove my fist so far down your fucking throat that you'll be shitting my fingernails for a week.
~ Tanya Huff
On the other hand, Alvin was looking for the perfect daughter who would love him with complete devotion, the way he loved himself. Unable to find such a daughter, he'd killed all of the girls, satisfied that he was at least punishing the fathers.
~ Ted Dekker
She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them.
~ Julie Anne Peters
If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.
~ Julie Garwood
We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back.
~ Justin Cronin
Die Schuldigen werden ihre Strafe bekommen.
~ Kai Meyer
Bullies always get bullied themselves. They always get a taste of their own bitter medicine sooner or later. - Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
I think after I beat Ryan Bader, he should have to go get beat up by Anthony Johnson for being so disrespectful to Anthony Johnson.
~ Daniel Cormier