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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. -- Eric Hoffer
Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch. -- Candace Bushnell
Retribution is just outstanding. -- Douglas Preston
Retribution is a dog chasing its tail. -- Libba Bray
Retribution is really a stone age concept. -- Thomas Metzinger
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. -- Hosea Ballou
Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar. -- Rod Serling
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. -- Horace
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. -- Ron Silver
Lo! A call for a bloody trial-Retribution should it hail!Whose? you ask,For he that deems it a worthy task! -- Carol Robi
Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) -- Vince Flynn
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. -- Glenn Greenwald
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. -- Louis D. Brandeis
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. -- Meg Greenfield
I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories. -- Victoria Smurfit
If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon. -- Paul Begala
God gives each his due at the time allotted. -- Euripides
The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. -- Meg Greenfield
Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries. -- John Milton
The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely. -- Euripides
Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. -- Pierre Corneille
The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength. -- Euripides
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.] -- Juvenal
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. -- J. M. Coetzee
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing. -- Carl Douglas
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. -- Jeremy Collier
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. -- Edgar Allan Poe
But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over. -- John Trumbull
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death. -- Immanuel Kant
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. -- Conrad Black
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap. -- Calvin Klein
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution. -- Rick Perlstein
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution. -- Paul Bloom
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. -- Pat Robertson
There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong. -- Basmah bint Saud
Excess always carries its own retribution. -- Ouida
There's always enough retribution to be dealt. -- Amber Silvia
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature -- Hosea Ballou
Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins. -- Augusta Jane Evans
Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay. -- Dov Davidoff
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate. -- Terry Goodkind
It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct -- Mother Teresa
AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature. -- Pat Buchanan
Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. -- Charles Dickens
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution. -- Marie Howe
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy. -- Marcus Aurelius
No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts. -- Don Henley
Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution. -- Max Lucado
there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible. -- Miles Franklin
That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution. -- Joe Royle
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. -- Leo Tolstoy
You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution. -- Nelson Mandela
One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin. -- Marcus Eremita
The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS). -- Pat Buchanan
Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare. -- Jeb Bush
It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something. -- Dan Wells
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. -- John Paul Stevens
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface. -- Alvin Rosenfeld
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. -- Ambrose Bierce
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. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution. -- Gerald L. Sittser
I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution. -- Gerald L. Sittser
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death. -- Dave Eggers
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
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. -- Charles Krauthammer
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. -- Hillary Clinton
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. -- Don DeLillo
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. -- Piper Kerman
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. -- Bernie Sanders
Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers; vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
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. -- Philip Schultz
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. -- William Shawcross

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