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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish…

— Desmond Tutu

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

— Desmond Tutu

If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God…

— N. T. Wright

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

— Daniel Waterman

If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of…

— Avery Dulles

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is…

— Nina Totenberg

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

— Lewis B. Smedes

Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the…

— Lewis B. Smedes

We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

— Desmond Tutu

“Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter of justice,…

— Daniel Waterman

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

— Desmond Tutu

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames