To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past's future.” — Jackson Burnett 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
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 Copy Share Image
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“It’s difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it’s the barest promise.” — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap. — Calvin Klein 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
I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution. — Marianne Williamson 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
“Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her… — Alan Heathcock Copy Share Image
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed… — Meg Greenfield 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
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it? Karma is not an inviolate engine… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
“Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the… — Richard Brodie Copy Share Image
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
“One can say that Javert is our conscience. The ever lurking presence of the law and our own condemnation. The tension between… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
“No man, no matter how smart or strong, can compete with a motivated woman.” — J.K. Franko Copy Share Image
My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“Wrong behavior carries with it the seeds of its own retribution.” — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image