Rodrigo Duterte Quotes

If I do bad, shoot me.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

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

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

Now I am a private citizen, During the time of my government I have wielded almost absolute powers. I ask you to believe me that whatever wrongs I may have done have been the result of difficult conditions in which it was my lot to govern, and not the fruit of evil passions. I am ready to answer any accusations you wish to make against me. And if the wrongs I have done can be purged by my blood, then take of me the vengeance you will. Here is my breast!

Somewhere, sometime, somehow, some way these people will have to answer for their acts.

Because of a few, disasters come upon a whole people, and because of the evil deeds of one, many have to taste their fruits.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

Blame is for God and small children.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.