Restitution Quotes

• Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Spiritual, Expression, Needs

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• Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Four, Repentance, Mark

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• Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Abuse, Victim, Conscience

  Twitter post from Nov 8, 2017

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• To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

  Criss Jami

  Expectations, Needs, Ought

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.43, Criss Jami

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• Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Perpetrators, Remorse

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• My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sadness, Humility, Thinking

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• Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  Tammy Bruce

  Winning, Trials, Innocence

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.264, Crown Forum

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• If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Winning, Opportunity, Giving

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• Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Missing, Drug

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Sin, Disobeying

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• The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy. We cannot keep our democracy if those who are in charge of handling the engines of our economy are not honest with their shareholders. That's why there is a role for government regulation here. That role for government is breaking up the monopolies, insisting on public disclosure, insisting on public audits, insisting on restitution whenever someone has been cheated.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, Wall, Government

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Forever, Unions

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• To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. "Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are." No axiom in politics is more certain than this.

  Francois Mitterrand

  People, Justice, Judging

  "Le Coup d'État permanent". Book by François Mitterrand, Part III, 1964.

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• Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

  Martin Heidegger

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Missing, Drug

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• Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

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• Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.

  Don Feder

  Punishment, Killers, Way

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• The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.

  Chris Hedges

  Lonely, Memories, Home

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Eight, Rights, Years

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• [Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't want to, you don't much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.

  Bob Black

  People, Receiving, Degrees

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