Quotes About Retribution

We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.

All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deserving

You'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer.

Lips, let sour words go by and language end: What is amiss plague and infection mend! Graves only be men's works and death their gain! Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.

Mercy but murders pardoning those who kill.

And the next time you want to whip somebody, take him out in the swamps, kick the shit out of him, and stuff what's left up under a cypress tree.

Kill 'em all 'cept six. Save them for pallbearers.

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

Nemesis personifies "the Goddess of Retribution, who brings down all immoderate good fortune, checks the presumption that attends it, …and is the punisher of extraordinary crimes".36

Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.

The peoples, transported by their sufferings and by the mass teachings with which they had been inspired, stood around in scores of millions to demand that retribution should be exacted to the full. Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred blood-soaked battlefields.

Balanced and restorative justice is a new approach to juvenile crime that conceives of crime as an act that not only harms people but also violates relationships in a community. Thus, rather than a retributive approach, in which the state punishes an offender, restorative justice practices emphasize healing of the victim, the offender, and the community.

I doubt that the men would lift a finger to save him from the hanging he so justly deserves.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said.

Revenge is a powerful motivation, especially for someone with nothing to lose.

Apabila seseorang mencoba untuk melukaiku dengan alasan pribadi yang bagaimanapun, aku merasa lemah untuk tidak memaafkannya. Tapi bila mereka dengan sengaja mencoba untuk menghancurkan negara, aku tidak akan mengampuninya.

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back.

In short, for the murders of those I court, I bless the hour that holds your fall.

We all have it comin', kid

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.

Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.

For great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.