Quotes about Retribution

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

I don't want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I might want to kill.

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.