Quotes About Retribution
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
~ Alexander Pope
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Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
~ Thomas Aquinas
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The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.
~ Homer
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If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.
~ Peire Cardenal
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Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
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Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.
~ Augusta Jane Evans
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
~ Ben Jonson
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All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.
~ Don DeLillo
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You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
~ George R. R. Martin
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You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.
~ George R. R. Martin
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
~ Malcolm Lowry
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Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.
~ Neil Gaiman
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I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
~ Patricia Briggs
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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
~ Plautus
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No man provokes me with impunity.
~ Ovid
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Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.
~ James Reston, Jr.
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Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm, I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms. You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.
~ Sean Price
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You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.
~ Kirsten Miller
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If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.""Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?""Freedom, security, retribution.
~ Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
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Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.
~ Christmas Humphreys
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To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.
~ Thomas Secker
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When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.
~ Bob Marshall
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