“For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean. — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five. — Hank Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
“Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
If you're disappointed with yourself or frustrated with your partner, the answer is not to take it out on the world around… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the… — Richard Brodie Copy Share Image
[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
I do see more and more people who are moving away from traditional religions that exclude others and have hatred as their… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it? Karma is not an inviolate engine… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed… — James Jones Copy Share Image
THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that I was covered in blood. The second thing I noticed was… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image