Quotes About Retribution

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.

Perps didn't always get their just deserts in this life. That was one of the reasons she kept believing in God, the hope that he would kick ass in the afterlife.

I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

Miss Britney Spears took a dude that was already with a girl that had babies. And sometimes when you do that kind of stuff and take a dude, that's called karma.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

The first: No good deed goes unpunished. (A phrase, ironically, that was coined by a woman, Clare Boothe Luce.) The

Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond - to claim his pound of flesh - the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio's blood.

those who live by the tort, die by the tort.

he who thinks new favours will cause great personages to forget old injuries deceives himself.