Errol Morris Quotes

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.

In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Let the punishment fit the crime. Noxiae poena par esto.

Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, wounds equal for equal

If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

Whenever people would speculate about the death of my grandfather it was always this very retributive thing. That they were going to picket his funeral after all the things that he had done to so many other people. That vindictiveness is obviously completely understandable. It would make perfect sense.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

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

Revenge proves its own executioner.

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

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.