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Quotes About Retribution

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the 'New York Times' Building.
~ Ann Coulter
We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.
~ Osama bin Laden
There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
~ Jennifer Lopez
The hatred of those who hate me is like a boomerang to them
~ Avisheena
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
~ Orson Scott Card
Unless it does turn out to be you, of course," Izzy adds. "Then I'll spit on your grave myself. Take you to the last house on the left just before dawn.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
what they were thinking. Finally, I understood. They wanted to punish the United States.
~ Stephen H. Schneider
Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.' He turned to the High King and said, 'The hurt this woman has done me, I readily forgive. It is for the harm that she has caused others that she is to be judged.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad.
~ Stephen Richards
Gary Moore is another legendary figure of sheer violence. In prison, Gary has spent most of his adult life inside one jail or another. When, on the odd occasion, he does get out of prison, it doesn't take him long to go on a murderous campaign of total terror. Gary has been charged and stood trial for some three or four different murders.
~ Stephen Richards
They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why. Because in all of the whole human race Mrs Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two There's the one they put in his proper place And the one with his foot in the other one's face Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you. Now we all deserve to die Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death will be a relief We all deserve to die.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Because in all of the whole human race Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two There's the one staying put in his proper place And the one with his foot in the other one's face Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you. No, we all deserve to die Even you, Mrs Lovett, even I! Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death will be a relief
~ Stephen Sondheim
To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.
~ Steve Allen
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
~ Steve Allen
So in this chapter, God threatened to kill everyone twice, but settled for killing 14,959 in three separate killing events. But don't complain about it or he'll kill you, too.
~ Steve Wells
The world, someone once said, gives back what is given. In abundance. But then, as Kallor would point out, someone was always saying something. Until he got fed up and had them executed.
~ Steven Erikson
Retribution seen in natural catastrophes is manufactured by all too eager and all too pious people, each one convinced the world will end but spare them and them alone. But we all know, the world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous
~ Steven Erikson
But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the stone. 'I have had,' the Jaghut roared, and into the air she went again, and down once more, 'enough' - with a sob the crushed, broken body was yanked from the ground again - 'of- 'your- justice!
~ Steven Erikson
The snake will always bite back.
~ Jake Roberts
A long time ago, I had a bird that annoyed me, and the bird had to go. The bird's neck was snapped. I would also snap Conor McGregor's neck in a similar fashion.
~ Michael Bisping
Le supplice ne rétablissait pas la justice, il réactivait le pouvoir.
~ Michel Foucault
Le droit de punir a été déplacé de la vengeance du souverain à la défense de la société.
~ Michel Foucault
Es preciso que la justicia criminal, en lugar de vengarse, castigue al fin. Esta necesidad de un castigo sin suplicio se formula en primer lugar como un grito del corazón o de la naturaleza indignada: en el peor de los asesinos, hay una cosa al menos que debe respetarse cuando se castiga: su "humanidad".
~ Michel Foucault
the pillory was abolished in France in 1789 and in England in 1837.
~ Michel Foucault