Libba Bray Quotes

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

No lie can live forever.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

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.

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

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.

If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.