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Quotes About Retribution

You know what I think of a guy who wags a finger at me and makes a tut-tut-tut noise? I think he's begging to lose a finger.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
An arm for an arm!
~ Hammurabi
an eye for an eye
~ Hammurabi
He practiced the code of swift reprisal that was almost universally practiced by the Indians themselves: Failure to strike back, he understood, would only be interpreted as weakness and inevitably lead to an even bolder assault.
~ Hampton Sides
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
~ Hannah Arendt
Wrong behavior carries with it the seeds of its own retribution.
~ Harold S. Kushner
Tell the righteous it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him. (Isaiah 3:10–11)
~ Harold S. Kushner
that we got what we deserved in life.
~ Harold S. Kushner
Fifty-eight years after he was first jailed for the most heinous crimes ever committed by a juvenile, Jesse Harding Pomeroy was free at last.
~ Harold Schechter
Every society has the criminals that it deserves.
~ Havelock Ellis
Anything evil that you do will come back at you.
~ Heather Graham
You should have died when I killed you.
~ le carre john
You really think you can get away with punishing a detective who was shot by a deputy and two days later, despite her wounds and her place getting firebombed, caught the killer of a city councilman? She has your balls in a vise and knows it.
~ Lee Goldberg
Karma," Duncan said, "will always piss on your new shoes.
~ Lee Goldberg
what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.
~ Lemmy Kilmister
People don't always get what they deserve in this world.
~ Lemony Snicket
Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.
~ Lemony Snicket
They were probably hitting the town. I hoped it was hitting them back.
~ Lemony Snicket
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
~ lenin vladimir iii
You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.
~ Leo Tolstoy
YOU JUST PICKED THE WRONG INMATE TO MESS WITH!" Legend said. "I'M TALKING TO YOU, DOOLIN. YOU HEAR ME? BAD CHOICE… VERY BAD CHOICE!
~ James Patterson
The world was filled with clever killers who mistakenly believed that they'd never be caught. This was not true. Karma had everyone's address
~ James Swain
Karma had everyone's address
~ James Swain
It's an agent of the devil, sent to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should.
~ James Thurber