Quotes About Retribution

vigilantes. What occurred was a massacre of civilians by other civilians.

Maybe she was not really like that. It's just that I would prefer you to think that what happened to her was justified.

A society that is unable to convince individuals of its ability to exact atonement for injury is a society that runs a constant risk of having its members revert to the wilder forms of [vigilante] justice Ã¢â'¬Â¦

if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government — which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

They want to see him made accountable for his actions. They want to see him pay for what he did. So do I. In an ideal world, there would be no need for retribution. But in real societies, punishing the guilty is as integral to the function of law as exoneration the innocent and preventing crime.

In the last twenty years at least forty-six people have been released from death row because the errors in their convictions were found in time to save their lives. Some are not so lucky.

She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life for an eye.

Vengeance is mine. I will repay.

The vengeance of history is more terrible than the vengeance of the most powerful General Secretary.

Retribution is not slow in coming," I wrote in the Kornilov days. "Hounded, persecuted, slandered, our party never grew as rapidly as it is growing now. And this process will spread from the capitals to the provinces, from the towns to the country and the army . . . Without ceasing for a moment to be the class organization of the proletariat, our party will be transformed in the fire of persecution into a true leader of all the oppressed, downtrodden, deceived and hounded masses.

Criminals who went against Doc seldom wound up in prison. They either learned a lesson that made them law-abiding men the rest of their lives--or they became dead criminals. Doc never did the job halfway.

One, your hair is stupid. And two, I don't know what it's like where you come from, but if you ever do anything that could get me sent back to Brooklyn again, I won't just break your nose. I will motherfucking kill you.

You. Killed. A. Hermit. You. Weird. Sweaty. Bastard!

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

proposed as appropriate compensation. This reminds me

Besides, I punched him in the eye.

That was the thing about impulsiveness. It contained the seeds of its own retribution.

May the devil himself splatter you with dung.

Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.

la conscience du coupable vengerait assez l'innocent. Sa prédiction n'a pas été vaine ; elle ne cesse pas un seul jour de s'accomplir.

Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said, "for stealing this land from the Mexicans

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

a wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him.