Maximilien Robespierre Quotes

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

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

The injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

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

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

The punishment of the wrongdoer is not designed as atonement for a crime; it is a solace to the individual who has suffered a private wrong.

Recompense injury with justice.

I want no mercy. I want justice, justice, justice.

There is no justice if wrongdoers go unpunished and victims do not feel avenged.

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

If an Indian injures me, does it follow that I may avenge myself on all other Indians?

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.

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

If I do something wrong, make me pay for it.

Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

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