Moral Retribution Quotes

Evil gains work their punishment.

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

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.

I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means -- to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal -- would bring terrible retribution.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

You made a sacrifice. And heaven rewarded you.

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

Virtue is its own revenge.

America is not big enough to shake her fist in the face of a holy God and get away with it, and as I read this I want to explain something. I'm going to read this and then I want to explain something. As America has permitted homosexuality to establish itself as an alternate lifestyle, it is also reeling from the frightening spread of sexually transmitted disease. Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations.

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.