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
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. — Friedrich von Logau Copy Share Image
The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without… — Anna Brownell Jameson 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
“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
Mustafa Ali has never beaten me in any way, shape or form. Singles match or tag team match, Ali has never beaten… — Cedric Alexander Copy Share Image
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife… — Jim Croce Copy Share Image
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the… — John Paul Stevens 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
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
“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 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
“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
I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most thoughts of wrongdoing are tempered by fear of retribution, which doesn't exonerate us or make us better. We are what we… — James T. Barrett Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“Wrong behavior carries with it the seeds of its own retribution.” — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
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