Retribution Quotes

Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

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

The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

Retribution is just outstanding.

Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.

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

When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.

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.

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

Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.

That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

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.

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

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

Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

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

AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

I wanna piss on his head, I want his family dead.

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

You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.

You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.

I'll love you to ruins.

Accidents and sicknesses are accepted as deserved retribution by the person who has feelings of guilt

We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts.

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and w

Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.

A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.

What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought or interpretation.

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.

There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy.

I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.

You know what’s worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child.

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.

To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred.

It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.

And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.-Revelations 20:9

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governm

People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs

Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.