79 Quotes About Retribution

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

Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody.

Fear, retribution and anger are usually rooted in immaturity

You ran quite far and almostgot away. But I setfire to your ghost, and the sweet, sick hazeof that burning rosehas found you out.

The only way we can truly liberate ourselves as a nation, is by maintaining the pressure against corrupt regimes, demanding accountability, restitution, retribution & of-course being smarter than them.-

If our desire for justice is not rooted primarily in the pursuit of restoration, then reconciliation will be nearly impossible to achieve. It is precisely because grace is undeserved that makes it grace.

Could not God just forgive us without having to hurt something or someone?

Imagination is ruler of darkness, twisting and racking one’s mind until it succumbs to the will of the master.

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