Retribution Quotes - Page 3

• 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. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

  Thomas Secker

  Forgiveness, Christian, Evil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 251), 1895.

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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 have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.

  Jeanne Woodford

  Guarantees, Prevention, Death Penalty

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• God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Woe, Grind, Mills

  William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.123

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• Excess always carries its own retribution.

  Ouida

  Excess, Carrie

  Ouida (1884). “Princess Napraxine”

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• One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Revenge is the most destructive emotion. Know that retribution against someone who has hurt you will not neutralise the bitterness of your pain. It will eat away at your very being. Be positive and remember the past cannot be changed.

  Walter Mikac

  Wisdom, Hurt, Pain

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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 guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates; if the former threatens, the latter strikes; if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood

  Walter Benjamin

  Blood, Law, Guilt

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.249, Harvard University Press

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• Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

  Max Lucado

  Justice, Guarantees, Diminish

  Max Lucado (2015). “You'll Get Through This (Miniature Edition): Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times”, p.164, Running Press

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• As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Revenge, Doors, Brain

  Song: Niggas Bleed

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• I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run.

  Cat Stevens

  Running, Revenge, Gun

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• When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

  Elvis Costello

  Revenge, Dirt, Graves

  Song: Tramp the Dirt Down, Album: Spike, 1989

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• I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

  James Brown

  Revenge, Crazy, Karate

  James Brown (2013). “James Brown - The Ultimate Collection (Songbook)”, p.123, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Fear, she's the mother of violence.

  Peter Gabriel

  Mother, Revenge, Violence

  Song: Mother of Violence

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• Retribution is just outstanding.

  Douglas Preston

  Outstanding

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• Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pain, Hate, Soul

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• Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

  Robert Wright

  Stress, Way, Fabulous

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

  Horace

  Track, Lame, Legs

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• Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

  John Paul Stevens

  Approval, Execution, Rationale

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• Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Memories, Men, Earth

  Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.408

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• I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Revenge, Fighting, People

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• We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? There are those who would look upon this as a sign of weakness. Is it? I submit that it takes neither strength nor intelligence to brood in anger over wrongs suffered, to go through life with a spirit of vindictiveness, to dissipate one’s abilities in planning retribution. There is no peace in the nursing of a grudge. There is no happiness in living for the day when you can ‘get even.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Nursing, Evil, Forgiving

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• If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Law, Citizens

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• She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Revenge, Toilets, Clean

  Song: Me and My Bitch

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• Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

  Jimmy Dean

  Crush, Queens, Revenge

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• One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that's why.

  Lesley Gore

  Revenge, Party, Kissing

  Song: Judy's Turn to Cry

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