Restitution Quotes

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

Retaliation is sometimes mercy, mercy to both parties

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.

Anyone who wants reparations based on history will have to gerrymander history very carefully. Otherwise, practically everybody would owe reparations to practically everybody else.

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.

Recompense injury with justice.

France does not practice revenge.

Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

… those who have been married to one wife, if she was a widow, and likewise those who after their ordination have unlawfully entered into one marriage that is, presbyters, and deacons, and subdeacons, being debarred for some short time from sacred ministration, and censured, shall be restored again to their proper rank, never advancing to any further rank, their unlawful marriage being openly dissolved.

… vengeance is seldom justice.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

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

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

We will strengthen crackdown on illegal renovations and enforce a restitution of large-scale development gains to better stabilize the real estate market.

What was taken by force must be returned by force.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

I unknowingly accepted impermissible benefits from my summer landlord. I look forward to moving on from this incident and to supporting my alma mater for many years to come.

We know, at last, precisely what we would get by submission, and therein has our enemy done us good service—abolition of slavery, confiscation of property, and territorial vassalage.