Retribution Quotes

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

If the government becomes a law breaker, 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 retribution.

Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force of thunder and lightning. In human affairs there must be a clear distinction between the penalties for small and great crimes. Retribution for wrongdoing must be swiftly and surely applied if greater problems are to be prevented.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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.

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.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.