Retributive Justice Quotes

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Punishment, Justice

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Balance, Different

  "Recovering From Apartheid" by Tina Rosenberg, www.newyorker.com. November 18, 1996.

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• I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Justice, Expectations, Done

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Two, Justice, Form

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Restorative Justice

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• 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 millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.

  Avery Dulles

  Teaching, Exercise, Two

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• [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 retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

  Nina Totenberg

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Justice

  "Inside Washington", PBS, July 8, 1995.

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• If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.

  N. T. Wright

  Justice, Effort, World

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