Retributive Quotes
- If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two… — Avery Dulles
- I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. — Paddy Ashdown
- There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as… — Desmond Tutu
- Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the… — Hans Kung
- My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior.… — Alonzo King
- If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in… — Eugene V. Debs
- What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat… — Roger Angell
- Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain. — Lewis B. Smedes