Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Some things come with their own punishments.

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

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.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

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.'

Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

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

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.