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  • A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

  • Fundamentalist Muslim terrorists kill three thousand Americans, but America isn't supposed to respond, because if we respond, they'll respond. We always hear about 'karmic retributions' and the 'cycle of violence' only after we've been hit.

    Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.310, Crown Forum
  • When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.

    Country   War   Men  
    Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”
  • 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.

    Revenge   Done   Failing  
    Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.185, Wordsworth Editions
  • I don’t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don’t care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.

    Years   Play   America  
  • Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

  • Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.

    Crazy   Sharks   Evil  
    Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws 2-Book Bundle: Jaws and Shark Trouble”, p.111, Random House
  • Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.

    Crush   Queens   Revenge  
  • Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it.

    Pain   Hate   Soul  
  • The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

    Revenge   Night   Light  
    Song: Arrival, Album: The Honesty Room
  • You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.

    Revenge   Beef   Ass  
  • 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.

    Revenge   Night   People  
  • To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 251), 1895.
  • When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

    Song: Tramp the Dirt Down, Album: Spike, 1989
  • 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.

    "The great campaign of 2010". www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.
  • Excess always carries its own retribution.

    Ouida (1884). “Princess Napraxine”
  • But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow. [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

    Wrath   Heaven   Ira  
  • Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life.

    Revenge   Pain   Agony  
    Song: Child of the Night, Album: The Red Light District, 2004
  • You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

    Revenge   Regret   Hate  
  • 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.

    Government   Law   People  
    Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.6, 谷月社
  • 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 (2003). “A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four”, p.82, Courier Corporation
  • Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.

  • Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.

    Teacher   Mean   Men  
    Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)
  • 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.

    Country   Law   Citizens  
  • AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.

    Law   Aids   Retribution  
    "Cosmo's Deadly Advice To Women About Aids" by Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. July 31, 1993.
  • You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

    Revenge   Enemy   Knees  
    Song: Money Machine, Album: In The Pocket
  • All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

  • 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.

    Karma   Punishment   Risk  
  • Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

    Stress   Way   Fabulous  
    Robert Wright (2010). “The Evolution Of God: The origins of our beliefs”, p.116, Hachette UK
  • there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

    Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
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