Nora Roberts Quotes

Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That's what we do. That's just the way it is.

An eye for an eye is elemental.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

I did not defend myself. I say a life for a life.

To deal with us, you must understand us, We believe in an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth. We do not understand Christian charity.

If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

I'm not real big on repentence ... I like revenge better.

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, wounds equal for equal