Quotes About Retribution

I believe, the pope continued, that in some cases forgiveness can be dangerous. When we forgive evil in the world, we are giving evil permission to grow and spread. When we respond to an act of war with an act of mercy, we are encouraging or enemies to commit further acts of violence. There comes a time when we must do as Jesus did and forcefully throw over the money tables, shouting: 'This will not stand !' - Pope Innocent XIV (palmarians)

Righteousness exists in many forms. And more death will come before tonight is over.

Los que matan con la espada, por la espada perecerán".

The Shrike Temple had used androids extensively, complying with the Church of the Shrike doctrine which proclaimed that androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind and—incidentally—exempt from the Shrike's terrible and inevitable retribution.

We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back.

One narrative, about the hated people in our lands, is that eventually they get what is coming to them.

Karma, simply put, is an action for an action ... good or bad.

There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.

The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.

He has trifled with the sacred memory of my husband, thought the Professor's widow. On my life and honor, I will make him pay for it.

A dead body revenges not injuries.

where cotton grows man-tall in the very cracks of the sidewalk, mortgaged before it is even planted and sold and the money spent before it is ever harvested, and usury and mortgage and bankruptcy and measureless wealth all breed and spawn together until no man has time to say which is which, or cares ... This land, said the older hunter. No wonder the ruined woods I used to know don't cry for retribution. The very people who destroyed them will accomplish their revenge.

His role in the trials over, he was unwanted in Washington. In an M Street restaurant, over asparagus crepes, the aide explained the terminal dangers involved in talking to the wrong people. Corto crushed the man's larynx with the rigid fingers of his right hand. The Congressional aide strangled, his face in an asparagus crepe, and Corto stepped out into cool Washington September.

Hello," he said. "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

I write out of revenge

If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem escape the remuneration. Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of the divine justice. It is impossible to tilt the beam. All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar. Settles forevermore the ponderous equator to its line, and man and mote, and star and sun, must range to it, or be pulverized by the recoil.[11]

He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself

Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked. "Have I paid sufficiently for my theft?

The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.

But take care, or I may cut those tongues from thy throats for thee." Ouch, thought Billy. That'll hurt.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged