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Quotes About Retribution

Bullshit," Salander said again. "Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.
~ Steig Larsson
If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.
~ Will Rogers
I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.
~ Andy Dick
People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
~ Vincent Cassel
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
~ Willie Davis
He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him.
~ Thomas F. Monteleone
There are injuries which nature cannot forgive; she would cease to be nature if she did.
~ Thomas Paine
But if Viraf had been unable to light her funeral pyre, she had done it for him. She had climbed on top of the neatly arranged pile of wood and lay down; she had lit the match that brought alive the flames that had devoured her. With her words she had birthed a fire that had scorched all of them. The fire had consumed her, turning her future and her dreams to ash;
~ Thrity Umrigar
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
~ Thucydides
Capital punishment: Them without the capital get the punishment.
~ Tim Dorsey
Jesus. Why'd you do that?" "That motherfucker slapped me!" "And you just kill him?" "You never motherfuckin' hit a woman!" "How could he have missed you dedication of feminine virtue, especially when you keep saying motherfucker?
~ Tim Dorsey
We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
~ Rand Paul
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
~ Orson Scott Card
T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.
~ Orson Scott Card
That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you.
~ Orson Scott Card
They gave us the stardrive we used to get to them, and the weapon we used to kill them. They gave us everything.
~ Orson Scott Card
You did hurt me. And I hurt you. It's a popular pastime here.
~ Orson Scott Card
that's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.
~ Orson Scott Card
If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.
~ Orson Scott Card
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal
~ Oscar Wilde
The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Call it, friend-O (No Country For Old Men)
~ Cormac McCarthy