“There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy.” — Victoria Malin Gregory Copy Share Image
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS). — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“Paulinus, everyone knows. Say the word, and I'll run the bitch over with my chariot” — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution…There comes a… — Jeanne Woodford Copy Share Image
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her… — Alan Heathcock Copy Share Image
All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“coincidence. When we return, we will deal with them…and their family.” Unless it really is the U.S. But why would they want… — Michael C. Grumley Copy Share Image
“Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers—vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below… — Alvin Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34… — Sam the Sham Copy Share Image
I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run. — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil… — Thomas Secker Copy Share Image
Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“THE RETRIBUTION PRINCIPLE (RP) is the conviction that the righteous will prosper and the wicked will suffer, both in proportion to their… — John H. Walton Copy Share Image
Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
I don’t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don’t… — Ford Frick Copy Share Image
A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
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