79 Quotes About Retribution

Vengeance may tempt you with a promise of satisfaction and peace, but it will not deliver.

When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow, torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed. They call this retribution. Hateful name! When that word is pronounced, I know greater and more horrid punishments are going to be inflicted than the gloomiest tyrant has ever invented to satiate his utmost revenge.

Jesus stressed that God does not do drone strikes on people just because they ignore or offend him.

Destroying someone's life could be remarkably cathartic.

A strike within the realm of the professional never justifies retribution in the realm of the personal

A red-cape game of retribution is dangerous when a fresh bull with bigger horns waits in the shadows.

If our social justice is guided by retribution, we will simply perpetuate the use and abuse of power to inflict violence.

Sweet revenge always turns bitter eventually.

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