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
“It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.” — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around… — Jimi Hendrix 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
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
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of… — Dave Eggers 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
And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no… — Cass Sunstein 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
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
“In every life, there comes a day of reckoning - a time when unsettled scores demand retribution, and our own lies and… — Emily Thorne 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
Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls:… — Neil Gaiman 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
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
