Retribution Quotes
148 quotes by 124 authors
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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
— Conrad Black
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection.…
— Thomas Secker
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We need to be kinder with one another, more gentle and forgiving. We need to be slower to anger and more prompt to help. We…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
— Hosea Ballou
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Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
— Ron Silver
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Retribution is really a stone age concept.
— Thomas Metzinger
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If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-​destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once…
— Walter Benjamin
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If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death…
— Immanuel Kant
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If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.
— Alvin Rosenfeld
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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 time when you…
— Jeanne Woodford
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It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct
— Mother Teresa
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A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and…
— Charles Darwin
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the…
— Stanislaw Lem
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A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
— Marie Howe
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Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).
— Pat Buchanan
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AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.
— Pat Buchanan
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Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner:  a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline.  Here is a novel written with authentic authority…
— James Rollins
Who Wrote These Retribution Quotes
124 authors contributed a total of 148 Retribution Quotes, led by these top contributors: