Quotes About Retribution

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Nor have I forgotten sir. that the charity of his daughter delivered me from his power. I can forget injuries but never benefits.

The words with which a breakdown is treated are all medicalised - illness, treatment, nurse, doctor, meds - but the mechanism of treatment belongs to retribution: incarnation, surveillance, behaviour monitoring, parole. For crimes against normality, we get a label and a chemical life sentence. I hate this mechanism. I refuse to believe in it.

Ah, but it was not a nice world this, not a nice world at all. It was an Old Testament land that he found himself in, a land of barbarity and retribution.

This next record is dedicated to some personal friends of mine, the LAPD. For every cop that has ever taken advantage of somebody, beat 'em down or hurt 'em, because they got long hair, listen to the wrong kinda music, wrong color, whatever they thought was the reason to do it. For every one of those fuckin' police, I'd like to take a pig out here in this parkin' lot and shoot 'em in their mothafuckin' face.

Karma will do that to you, man—give you a little sliver of hope and then slam the door in your motherfucking face.

and may your stalk turn into a chicken and eat your testicles a peck at a time!

Off with his head—so much for Buckingham.

When we wrong God, he does not let us go, he makes us pay for our wrongs but through the death of his own son Jesus Christ. When God's people (Jews) wronged him, he weakened them in battle and caused them to be captives in Babylon for 70 years.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

If my brother was made to kneel... you will never walk again.

Vengeance is a fine thing, but forgiveness can be just as cruel.

There was no justice in the world—unless he made it for himself. Unless he cut twice as deep as he had been cut and gave back blow for blow. He had the right.

Your people will be torn from the land for this, Tartar. Your gers will burn and your herds will be scattered.

I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit. from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood

I like to believe that there is an extra warm corner of hell for these fuckers who traffic in emotional misery.

Kindness to a killer builds coffins.

I wondered about all the individuals wandering around out there who were in serious need of the administration of a dreadful ass-kicking and weren't likely to get it.

Remember! What goes around comes around three times harder than before. Karma is a bitch and one day it will come for you."

If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.