79 Quotes About Retribution

By making God more monstrous than us, we circumvent the need for redemption.

The condemned man’s voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. “Remember Father, evil is simply ‘live’ spelt backwards." Hellbound

Love and compassion are not circumstantial.

Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter of justice, proportionality may break down: offences created by the elite few become offences against the entire community.

It’s difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it’s the barest promise.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

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 governments."[On Water]

Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer

I had no real idea how ugly the subject of punishment would become when I began this study, and it has been enough to bear me down at times. What people will do to other people is indeed a hell in our midst.