Agatha Christie Quotes

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

To me, the joy you're going to get in a 'Punisher' story is watching him punish incredibly wicked people. Now, if you can add to that an emotional content, wonderful.

It is better to pardon the guilty than to take the lives of the innocent

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

there is no glory in punishing

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

I don't think vengeance is much good.

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

Blame is for God and small children.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

The essence of justice is mercy.