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Quotes About Retribution

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
~ Edward Albee
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.
~ Kurt Huber
I am a strong believer of karma.
~ Zareen Khan
I remember the dog at home, when I was a girl; the one that killed chickens. They tied a dead hen around his neck and he carried it around with him all day until he just lay there unmoving with his eyes shut in a morass of shame. It was cruel. There's nothing so hideously easy as giving someone a bad conscience.
~ Tove Jansson
You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea.
~ Tove Jansson
We'll find the dragon who set that bomb, and then I will tear off his wings and hang him from the eastern peak of Jade Mountain.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Well, THAT was not going to stand. NO, SIR. THIS time, there would MOST DEFINITELY BE CONSEQUENCES, FROG.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I know exactly who to kill. A freezing shiver rattled down Moon's spine. Sora.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
That's true, because I would have ripped off your tail and beaten you with it first," Winter said. "Nice," Qibli said from the shore. "Not the face this time. Very creative.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
But we'll get to the bottom of it," Tsunami promised. "We'll find the dragon who set that bomb, and then I will tear off his wings and hang him from the eastern peak of Jade Mountain
~ Tui T. Sutherland
he doesn't deserve to live!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
QUEST FOR VENGEANCE.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Wondering just how Mr Church thought he had deserved anything short of impalement, Stephen walked into the cabin.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Matthias Hopkins, commonly called "witchfinder general," took advantage of the disorders of the English civil wars of the seventeenth century and made a special business of the discovery of witches. He was quite successful, until his own methods were tried on his own person, and as he did not sink in the water ordeal, the people declared him to be a wizard and slew him (1647).
~ Paul Carus
The answer, I submit, is that the G.O.P. is an authoritarian regime in waiting. Trump himself clearly has the same instincts as the foreign dictators he so openly admires. He demands that public officials be loyal to him personally, not to the American people. He threatens political opponents with retribution—two years after the last election, he's still leading chants of "Lock her up." He attacks the news media as enemies of the people.
~ Paul Krugman
Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.
~ Paulette Jiles
Porque, en la vida real, el amor necesita ser posible. Incluso aunque no haya una retribución inmediata, el amor sólo consigue sobrevivir cuando existe la esperanza —por lejana que sea— de que conquistaremos a la persona amada. El resto es fantasía.
~ Paulo Coelho
Matar, matar, matar... Verbo transitivo exigindo objeto direto ensanguentado.
~ Unknown
As culture critic Dara Mathis tweeted about Kanye West, 'Daughters are not spiritual retribution for your misogyny.' They are neither a form of punishment nor tiny spiritual guides sent to newly show you the humanity of girls and women.
~ Peggy Orenstein
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.
~ Euripides
Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don't get mad get even.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.
~ Archilochus
No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.
~ Don Henley