Retribution Quotes

148 quotes by 124 authors

Retribution is just outstanding. — Douglas Preston
Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral… — Robert M. Price
I donâ€™t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I donâ€™t care if it… — Ford Frick
That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution. — Joe Royle
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy. — Marcus Aurelius
If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person… — Gautama Buddha
I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing… — Gerald Lawson Sittser
RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. — Ambrose Bierce
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more… — Piper Kerman
Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make… — Piper Kerman
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate. — Terry Goodkind
Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all… — Jet Black
The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. — Meg Greenfield
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. — Eric Hoffer
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a… — Meg Greenfield
God gives each his due at the time allotted. — Euripides
Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries. — John Milton
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. — Leo Tolstoy
If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely… — Paul Begala

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