Quotes About Retribution

Next time you want to get back at another man, stab him in the heart. Don't piss in his rice.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Man is a tempted being, living with what he does and suffers in time, the medium in which he realizes his potential character. The indeterminacy of time means that events never happen once and for all. The good may fall, the bad may repent, and suffering can be, not a simple retribution, but a triumph.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.

Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

Forgiveness is not the same as pardon, he advises: you may forgive one who wronged you and still insist on a just punishment for that wrong.

the descendants of today's raped and mutilated victims will arise to seek vengeance on the avengers.

Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.

God shattered the inexorable law of sin and retribution by invading earth, absorbing the worst we had to offer, crucifixion, and then fashioning from that cruel deed the remedy for the human condition. Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace.

Non era stato lui lo sconfitto, ma la giustizia: quella umana almeno, perchè in quella divina credeva e sperava fermamente. E lo disse al giudice: Vedrà,signor giudice! Quello che non ha potuto fare la legge, lo farà un'altra mano!

And the worst of it was, Irene could not claim with any certainty that this savage retribution was wrong. She had always thought other people would and should suffer for their callousness, but had never realized that she was as guilty as they and deserved similar treatment.

SOCRATES: On the other hand, if the unjust be not punished, then, according to you, he will be happy? POLUS: Yes. SOCRATES: But in my opinion, Polus, the unjust or doer of unjust actions is miserable in any case,—more miserable, however, if he be not punished and does not meet with retribution, and less miserable if he be punished and meets with retribution at the hands of gods and men. POLUS: You are maintaining a strange doctrine, Socrates.

But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong which cannot be undone; he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again. He punishes for the sake of prevention, thereby clearly implying that virtue is capable of being taught.

karma's a bitch, and so am I

Don't worry...Someone will pay for your suffering. Heavily. With screaming.

You come back to us or I swear, I'll find you, dig up your stinky corpse, and kick its ass until it freaking disintegrates.