Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

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

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

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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.

I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it.

You should be held accountable for your actions.

I do think everybody pays their dues in Gilead, whether you're the most high-up commander or not. Everybody has to face the consequences of their actions.

Ruining someone else's life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

If you break someone's leg, shouldn't you have to be the crutch for a while?

Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.

For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.

Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration. I assume full political responsibility for what happened.

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

Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.