Retribution Quotes

“Each year
it just keeps getting hotter and hotter
and
the heat keeps getting more intense.

And this time it's our responsibility
(even if it's God's retribution
for destroying their planet).
Whether or not you yourself made it happen,
we are responsible to change it.
We're the only ones who can.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Suddenly the sweet scent stopped me in my tracks. Glancing down, I had stepped on a rose. And rather than being angered at the fact that I’d crushed it, it released its scent to me instead. And I thought that maybe we should be more like a rose.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My sins are too many to count... but I feel I've bled enough to absolve them all.”
― Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

“No, vengeance had steeped in her blood long enough. It had changed, grown, morphed. It was retribution now.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Steeping of Blood

“Fear, retribution and anger are usually rooted in immaturity”
― Karl Foehand

“What had Hitler achieved with his gospel of racial superiority and the hellish hatred it generated? How many millions of people lost their lives to that hatred? So that the Aryan race will retain its purity? What was the final outcome? Hitler had to die like a rat in its hole. He had to fire a bullet into his own temple in order to escape the ignominy that his friend, Mussolini, met with in the end.”
― Tomichan Matheikal, Black Hole

“Very odd, isn't it, that the retribution one brings on oneself fits so closely with what has caused it.”
― Agatha Christie, Nemesis

“Retribution needn't be so loud.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Steeping of Blood

“In certain Cases Retribution is Best Sought and Awarded Outside of the Judicial System”
― J. Patrick Brumfield

“He does not frighten me. Men do not frighten me. If anything, it's them who should feel nervous.”
― John Boyne, Fire

“Jesus stressed that God does not do drone strikes on people just because they ignore or offend him.”
― Karl Forehand, Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

“He would accept: Ethan deserved whatever he asked for. Rob would lose his virginity in exchange for a lack of a criminal record. It wasn't the way he'd imagined it would happen with a hypothetical prime boy in college, but there was no way around it. Ethan had every right to hate him and it was time to pay”
― K.A. Merikan, Not Like Other Boys

“Revenge errantly assumes that people can hurt others at no cost to themselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You're a liar, and worse-- you broke my heart. You're not a mother. You're a villain."
Gothel's eyes went wide. Her mouth opened and hung there as though even she was a little curious as to what she would say, what words would come and bring the situation back under her control.
"I would rather take my chances with an honest villain like Bathory!" Rapunzel hissed. "Get out of my sight and never let me see you again!"
"Or what?" Gothel asked, a knowing, nasty tone in her voice: her real voice. "What could you do to me, Rapunzel? I am your mother, and besides that I control all of these sword-playing idiots."
"Did you forget that I'm a crown princess? And a powerful witch who can control her hair now. Or did you think the castle just fell on its own today?
"Either way, your time with me is over, if you know what is good for you."
The two women glared at each other.
And after a minute, Rapunzel realized that's what they were: two women. Despite being younger and shorter than Gothel, she wasn't a girl anymore. She had power and will and a stubborn disposition.
"Go. Now," she ordered. "Never approach me again."
Her mother started to growl something--
"What's that? I can't hear you. All that mumbling," Rapunzel said airily, and walked away, turning her back on the woman forever.”
― Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

“Wounding others to fix your pain can never bring peace, evil begets evil.”
― Allene vanOirschot

“Death, in its essence, is the body’s retribution when it can no longer sustain the marvel of existence.”
― William Castano-Bedoya, The Beggars of the Mercury Lights: We the Other People

“And he said...

retribution will even the odds in life, but not in your favor.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I have no interest in inflicting damage or exacting retribution. Truth-telling, on the other hand, is essential. Sadly, truth-telling is now considered "demonizing" by those invested in the status quo.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“I don’t kill people in large numbers like you did. People that never raised a hand at you,” I said, full of disgust. “You weren’t forced to kill. You loved to kill. Your sadism was contagious, like an infectious disease. It knows no bounds. You break people, you put them together broken, and they become your shadow long after you’re dead. Your wickedness infects one generation after another. You’re the true face of evil.”
I stepped forward. He stepped back. His furry hooves clacked on the floor. He appeared uglier now that I could scan the whole of his body. Top half a soldier with the face blown off; the bottom half a goat.
What a sight. This was his form in the afterlife.”
― Salina Christmas, The Devil from the Deep: Part Six: The Constant Companion Tales

“But how can we let such rampant criminal behavior go unprosecuted?”
“Sometimes, Obi-Wan, fate provides its own prosecution…”
― Mike Kennedy

“I turned to my kitchen to put the final touch on my dish--- a splash of black aged vinegar to the broth. The acidity provided a better balance in the overall flavor. Black pieces of the desert silkie floated like ebony islands against the rich cinnabar shade of the hot pot broth. Amidst the bubbling broth, the vegetables--- deep green leaves with orange, dark pink, and light green blossoms--- created a kaleidoscope of tropical colors.
It told a visual story of Lupong surrounded by the turbulent Singing Sea--- how the humble Peninsula was a vibrant place, despite the Continent's view that it was a desolate backwater. It was the defiant testament that we existed. Our sovereignty was important, and the Empress had no right to invade our land and our home. This dish was a reminder that winning the peaches of immortality would mean freedom for the Peninsula. I wanted the Empress to eat my defiance.”
― Roselle Lim, Celestial Banquet

“The essence of justice lies in punishment proportional to the harm, not merely to restore what was taken or lost, but to uphold the moral and social order, affirm the dignity of the wronged, and deter future transgressions, acknowledging that while restoration heals in its many forms, retribution primarily balances the scales of accountability.”
― Njau Kihia

“Se nitilqu l-lupu lura f’nofs in-nagħaġ, imma din id-darba n-nagħaġ se jkunu jistgħu jarawk u jifhmuk mingħajr ma turihom snienek.”
― Karl Schembri, Eħlisna mid-deni

“There is no equivalence between grief and retribution. They do not cancel each other out. They create a deepening asymmetry of grief and terror. And that is Nature's true revenge.”
― Peter Hughes, A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues

“Grace is what you choose when revenge would be easier.”-Author-Felicia Brookins”
― Felicia Brookins, Josie's WAYS of Grace: Echoes Of Betrayal

“I despised myself for feeling ambivalent about his loss because he had been among those who had ‘looked the other way’ until the scourge touch his own flesh”
― Omar Rivabella, Requiem for a Woman's Soul

“Most reincarnationists also believe that the universe is governed by the Law of Karma. This law maintains that the world is just, and justice is equated with retribution. Everything good that happens to a human being is a reward for some previous good deed, and everything bad is punishment for an evil deed. The following is the formulation of the Law of Karma by Rayner Johnson, a leading academic reincarnationist: "Whatsoever a man sows, whether in the field of action or thought, sometime and somewhere the fruits of it will be reaped by him." It is not of course denied that for many of their good acts human beings are not rewarded and for many of their evil deeds they are not punished in the present life, but in that case the appropriate rewards and punishments will come in a later life, just as the happiness and unhappiness in the present life are frequently rewards and punishments for deeds in earlier lives.”
― Paul Edwards

“I don’t believe in hell.”
“You have to. It’s the only one some people ever get what they deserve.”
― Samantha Crewson, Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter

“You think she’s your friend? She doesn’t care whether you live or die.”
Suddenly, Nity jerks sideways, and it surprises him enough to roll off of me. I suck in my first full breath in minutes. She… listened to me. Saved me.
I climb clumsily to my knees, hand pressed to my knife wound gushing blood. I don't dare pull it out though. “You want gold so badly?” I craft gold off my forearm and throw the rich yellow metal at him. “Take it.”
The gold connects to the scaler’s chest. The blow doesn’t kill him, but the hit knocks him to Nity’s left side, teetering on the edge.
“No,” he shouts. Hands scramble to detach the golden mound of metal on his torso. He thinks I mean to craft against him, that I mean to stab him like he stabbed me.
“Nity will never be yours. How can she, when she listens to me?”
― Dana Swift, When Dealing With Dragons

“Tout ce qui brille trop, éclate ou triomphe inconsidérément, subira un jour un retour de bâton.”
― Sylvain Tesson, Un été avec Homère