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Tag Name "Retribution" (105)

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Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.
Jeb Bush
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When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
Elvis Costello
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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
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I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.
Dolly Parton
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As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.
The Notorious B.I.G.
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The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.
Euripides
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Retribution is really a stone age concept.
Thomas Metzinger
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For me, Zoo has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story.
James Patterson
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An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.
Kathy Mattea
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Drew a mustache on your picture, threw your ring away.
Sam the Sham
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But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
Juvenal
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If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-destroying if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates if the former threatens, the latter strikes if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood
Walter Benjamin
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I'm gonna do everything I can to get even with you. I started today when I wrote your name down in 34 telephone booths.
Sam the Sham
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I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run.
Cat Stevens
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But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
Terry Goodkind
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Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
Ron Silver
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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 Lawson Sittser
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The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
Marcus Aurelius
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Our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right for the people they have harmed. [...] Instead, our system of corrections is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night.
Piper Kerman
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Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man.
Jim Croce
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The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.
Joe Walsh
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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
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The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.
Henry Ford
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