Top 64 No Retribution Quotes
#1. No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
Dave Eggers
#2. So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.
George Eliot
#3. No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.
Don Henley
#5. There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Meg Greenfield
#6. The upper-caste, upper-class Hindus have to let go of their bigotry and prejudice. The oppressed have to let go of their justified but expensive urge for revenge and retribution. All over the world, the oppressed have only risen through self-empowerment - look at the Jews and the Parsis.
Chetan Bhagat
#7. I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.
Leonid Brezhnev
#8. Revenge is more wild, less calculated ... deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)
Vince Flynn
#9. It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices -- including the unjust suppression of inventors. Exposing the skeletons in the closet serves to enlighten, but getting off-message with retribution will be counter-productive.
Jeane Manning
#10. Discipline is helping a child solve a Problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solution not retribution.
L.R. Knost
#11. Then tell them, faintly, 'I heard screaming'. Men with a history of violence live in fear of retribution.
Jennifer Egan
#12. 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.
Louis D. Brandeis
#13. We'd rather have a grand spectacle of retribution of the 'wicked', than their silent walk towards redemption that our wishes questions the depth and nature of our love and hearts.
Ufuoma Apoki
#14. It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct
Mother Teresa
#15. In other words, it's the familiar hot sinking feeling experienced by everyone who has let the waves of their own anger throw them far up on the beach of retribution, leaving them, in the poetic language of the everyday, up shit creek.
Terry Pratchett
#16. I don't care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don't care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.
Ford Frick
#17. You know what's worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child.
John Hennessy
#19. The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
Marcus Aurelius
#20. Names?' the receptionist asked us.
"Jesus," Jamie answered.
"Mary," said Stella.
"Satan," I said as I walked past her and pushed open the door to Ira Ginsberg's office.
Michelle Hodkin
#21. I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.
Hillary Clinton
#22. The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
Sam Harris
#23. 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.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#24. Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones
Charles Darwin
#26. My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.
Snoop Dogg
#27. No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice from rearing its head - for he knows well what he deserves at the hands of those he subjugates.
Jane Jensen
#28. If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
Immanuel Kant
#29. Remembering the treatment that had been accorded the Knights and soldiers of St. Elmo, the Maltese inhabitants of Senglea took no prisoners. Hence there arose the expression (used in Malta to this day) 'St. Elmo's pay' for any action in which no mercy is given.
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford
#30. You think saving someone's life cancels out taking another person's life? In terms of fate and circumstance, yes. In terms of retribution and contrition, no.
Cassia Leo
#31. Tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for tiny acts of shitty retribution for an original offense that no one could remember. Or for no offense at all.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#32. There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
Basmah Bint Saud
#33. There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy.
Victoria Malin Gregory
#34. I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.
Hank Williams Jr.
#35. He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether.
Tullian Tchividjian
#37. The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
Veronica Roth
#38. But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, No matter where I turn my steps, The knives of misery will cut me down, The wage and retribution of a sinful life.
Santideva
#39. There's always enough retribution to be dealt.
Amber Silvia
#40. Let's just kill everyone and let God sort them out.
Marilyn Manson
#41. I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
Orson Scott Card
#42. It's difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it's the barest promise.
Sarah MacLean
#43. His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, 'for His mercy endureth forever.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#44. You don't get what you do for him. You're like his manic pixie dream girl or something." Jamie thought for a second. "Actually, more like his psychotic demon nightmare thing, but whatever. You get my point.
Michelle Hodkin
#45. I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie's cheek.
"FUCK," he shouted, wiping it off. "What if you killed me!" He threw a Skittle at my face. It hit my forehead.
"Ow!"
"Taste the rainbow bitch.
Michelle Hodkin
#47. That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.
Joe Royle
#48. Retribution. In a way, by asking me to kill
Jodi Picoult
#49. The Reckoning
The time has come for Retribution
A time for Redemption, A time for Forgiveness
A time for Renewal, A time to prevail
My love will set you free my darling.
Our love, forever bound.
-SL Ross
S.L. Ross
#50. The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself, consisting of the soul's slow agonizing descent into a state of such loneliness and despair as to be finally indistinguishable from Hell.
William Shakespeare
#52. Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.
Adriano Bulla
#53. I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.
Michelle Hodkin
#54. Drew a mustache on your picture, threw your ring away.
Sam The Sham
#55. Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.
Michelle Hodkin
#56. Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
Charles Dickens
#57. I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.
Elton John
#58. In every life, there comes a day of reckoning - a time when unsettled scores demand retribution, and our own lies and transgressions are finally laid bare.
Emily Thorne
#59. To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#60. This, to use an American term in which discovery, retribution, torture, death, eternity appear in the shape of a singularly repulsive nutshell, was it.
Vladimir Nabokov
#61. In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.
Emily Thorne
#62. people only follow their inclinations, and sooner or later find their reward or retribution. That's the natural law of life,
R.K. Narayan
#63. Ashes, ashes." Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.
"We all fall down.
A.F. Stewart
#64. Retribution seen in natural catastrophes is manufactured by all too eager
and all too pious people, each one convinced the world will end but spare them and them
alone. But we all know, the world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous
Steven Erikson
