Retribution Quotes · Page 2

Fear, she's the mother of violence.

— Peter Gabriel

Your so bitter, like kitty litter.

— Big Daddy Kane

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

— Neil Young

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

— Libba Bray

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

— James Brown

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

— The Notorious B.I.G

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

— Marie Howe

I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.

— Pete Townshend

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.

— Friedrich von Logau

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

— Ludacris

“Sweet revenge always turns bitter eventually.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

— Dov Davidoff

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

— John Locke

She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.

— The Notorious B.I.G

I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward…

— Anonymous

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

— Elvis Costello

“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

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

— Lou Reed

I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run.

— Cat Stevens

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

If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below…

— Alvin Rosenfeld

“Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers—vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes…

— Louis D. Brandeis

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men,…

— Don DeLillo

I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging…

— Leonid Brezhnev

A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence…

— Charles Darwin

I don’t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don’t…

— Ford Frick

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his…

— Paul Begala

“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

“History is full of numerous cases in which good persons were so unfortunate as to die a miserable death or to live…

— Kaiten Nukariya

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

“A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we…

— Daniel Waterman

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 first thing I noticed when I woke up was that I was covered in blood. The second thing I noticed was…

— Michelle Hodkin

“9. Retribution[FN#220] in the Past, the Present, and the Future Life. Then a question suggests itself: If there be no soul that…

— Kaiten Nukariya

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

“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."…

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Euripides