Quotes About Retribution

Mercy is defined as kindness or forgiveness given to someone who is within your power to punish. To show mercy means to give up retribution, sometimes at the cost of justice.

Ascanio came back. "What happened to him? He looks like he got his ass run over by a car." He was run over by my fist.

I'm going to find whoever put this creature through that torture, and I'm going to kill them slowly. Piece by piece.

They were fodder, but to him they were children, just like he had once been a child. Just like Jack. He had to find Spider. He had to kill him. Child murder had to be punished.

Sometimes killing a man wasn't an act of anger or punishment. It was a public service.

Nothing will bring me peace except revenge.

Anyway, as you say, what the hell. I know, I've been to hell, I've seen it, I've been shown round. I'll kill myself. You'll see, you'll be sorry.

Agamemnon was killed on his first night home from Troy. But Agamemnon was guilty, guilty.

When you hurt some cunt […] it's you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you've done it for fuck all, it means nothing

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?

Al parecer, cree más en la curación que en el castigo de los criminales. Considero esto muy significativo.

Me será muy difícil vengar a todos lo que tienen que ser vengados, porque mi venganza no sería más que otra parte del mismo rito inexorable. Quiero pensar que mi oficio es la vida y que mi misión es no prolongar el odio, sino solo llenar estas paginas [...]

cayó la ceniza como coronación del castigo

Frank Castle knows only two sides: Good and Evil. There is no grey zone for him.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.