Retribution Quotes · Page 4

“Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past's future.”

— Jackson Burnett

He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

— Al Yankovic

No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

— Sulla

“A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

— Al Yankovic

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.

— Marianne Williamson

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

— Calvin Klein

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

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine…

— Pat Robertson

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we…

— Sting

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock…

— John Trumbull

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

— Henry Rollins

“Vengeance stems from a love of justice and a desire to redress wrongs. But revenge is damning. Three faces has the Night…

— Brent Weeks

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with…

— Charles Krauthammer

When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold…

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

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

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no…

— Immanuel Kant

Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively…

— Derek R. Audette

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

Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military…

— Leila Fadel

If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come…

— Gautama Buddha

The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many…

— Eliza Griswold

My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.

— Snoop Dogg

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

— Euripides

Plan of execution, I'm demandin' retribution. First trip to prison, a lesson, second was just a nuisance.

— TI

We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.

— Biz Markie

Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

— James Taylor

But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

— Juvenal

“A red-cape game of retribution is dangerous when a fresh bull with bigger horns waits in the shadows.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

— Nelson Mandela

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

— Ozzy Osbourne

“Paulinus, everyone knows. Say the word, and I'll run the bitch over with my chariot”

— Kate Quinn

“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.”

— Jamaica Kincaid

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

— Pat Buchanan

“If you're already in Hell, there's little more to fear from divine retribution.”

— Lisa Jensen

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

His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.

— Anonymous