Quotes About Retribution

What had Dr. Latham done to deserve a beating?

Columbus physically attacked Fonseca's accountant, kicking and assaulting him as a proxy for Fonseca himself.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Topluma doÄŸrudan zarar veren bir suçun cezas?z kalmas?n?n, gerçekleÅŸmesi olanaks?z bulunan bir suçun ise cezaland?r?lmas?n?n siyasal sak?ncalar? çok önemli ve büyüktür.

Si vendica, e bene, la vita, se qualcuno le ruba il mestiere.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.

You fat fuck," I said and jumped up and decked him. I broke his jaw, and they expelled me permanently on the spot. Naturally,

they wanted the guy left right there on the sidewalk as a message to those who needed to know the guy did not get away with whatever it was he had done. Anytime you read in the paper about a masked gunman, rest assured the gunman had no mask on.

The "means" was his second philosophy and can be summed up by a remark he made to Bobby Kennedy at a private party in which they found themselves together: "I do to others what they do to me, only worse." Simply put, Jimmy Hoffa believed that the "ends" of improving the lot of working Americans, with his union leading the way, justified whatever "means" were used to accomplish it.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

Approach me again, you — you — you Heep of infamy," gasped Mr. Micawber, " and if your head is human, I'll break it.

You dogs!" said the Marquis, but smoothly, and with an unchanged front, except as to the spots on his nose: "I would ride over any of you very willingly, and exterminate you from the earth. If I knew which rascal threw at the carriage, and if that brigand were sufficiently near it, he should be crushed under the wheels.

Ah!" returned the man, with a relish; "he'll be drawn on a hurdle to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken down and sliced before his own face, and then his inside will be taken out and burnt while he looks on, and then his head will be chopped off, and he'll be cut into quarters. That's the sentence.

The basin fell to the ground broken, and the water flowed to the feet of Madame Defarge. By strange stern ways, and through much staining blood, those feet had come to meet that water.

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could endure the notion of their children laying their heads upon their pillows; in short, that there never more could be, for them or theirs, any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisoner's head was taken off.

I must bear the consequences as I deserve!

achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body

Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled

Once out of this court, I'll smash that face of yourn!

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

HELL. A place where the Ten Commandments have a police force behind them.

A bullet would perhaps be an unnecessarily severe form of punishment to mete out; but I confess I could excuse the man who was so far carried away by his righteous indignation as to duck the fellow in the nearest horse-pond.