Retribution Quotes

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

— The Notorious B.I.G

I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

— James Brown

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

— Libba Bray

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

— Neil Young

An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

— Kathy Mattea

Retribution is just outstanding.

— Douglas Preston

Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

— William Rounseville Alger

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

— Dar Williams

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

— Lou Reed

“No man, no matter how smart or strong, can compete with a motivated woman.”

— J.K. Franko

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

— Rodney Crowell

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

— Ouida

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

— Jackson Burnett

Retribution is really a stone age concept.

— Thomas Metzinger

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

— Al Yankovic

That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

— Joe Royle

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

— Max Lucado

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

— John Trumbull

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Henry Rollins

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

— Dolly Parton

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

— Sulla

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

— Eric Hoffer

“One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever transform those who…

— Ken Poirot

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

“ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKING BUT THE PRAISE OF MEN,…

— John Milton

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

— Brent Weeks

Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and…

— Piper Kerman

The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when…

— Bernie Sanders

When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to…

— Glenn Greenwald

Revenge is the most destructive emotion. Know that retribution against someone who has hurt you will not neutralise the bitterness of your…

— Walter Mikac

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

“Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it? Karma is not an inviolate engine…

— Vera Nazarian

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

“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed…

— James Jones

We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But…

— Leonard Bernstein

The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions,…

— Philip K. Dick

There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not…

— Karl Marx

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That…

— Barack Obama