August Friedrich Kellner Quotes

Capital punishment may not be much of a deterrent against murder, but the sight of a few corpses swinging from a scaffold might work with drug dealers.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity. That is what I expect I shall do, though never, in the days of my life, have I hurt a man with the palm of my hand. I never have hurt any person any other way except with this unruly member, my tongue. Notwithstanding this, if I caught a man stealing on my premises I should be very apt to send him straight home, and that is what I wish every man to do, to put a stop to that abominable practice in the midst of this people. I know this appears hard, and throws a cold chill over our revered traditions received by early education. I had a great many such feelings to contend with myself, and was as much of a sectarian in my notions as any other man, and as mild, perhaps, in my natural disposition, but I have trained myself to measure things by the line of justice, to estimate them by the rule of equity and truth, and not by the false tradition of the fathers, or the sympathies of the natural mind. If you will cause all those whom you know to be thieves, to be placed in a line before the mouth of one of our largest cannon, well loaded with chain shot, I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins. That is a short discourse on thieves, I acknowledge, but I tell you the truth as it is in my heart.

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

What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.

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'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.

You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

I don't think vengeance is much good.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

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

So perish all who do the like again.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper!

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!