Punishment Retribution Quotes

#1. All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Conrad Black

#2. They think he doesn't understand. That he can't see. They can't see him.

M.R. Carey

#3. Retribution is tricky ... The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

Candace Bushnell

#4. I like to smile a lot before going in the car. I make jokes, even on the grid, and then I can still manage to focus when it counts.

Romain Grosjean

#5. Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
[On Water]

Guy De Maupassant

#6. If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

Doug Davidson

#7. There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Justice isn't about fixing the past; it's about healing the past's future.

Jackson Burnett

#9. She's a queen. That's pretty high,' said Nanny Ogg. 'Almost as high as witches.

Terry Pratchett

#10. I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.

Peter Straub

#11. Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

Gerald Jonas

#12. Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Bing Gordon

#13. Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#14. Mma Ramotswe was right: evil repaid with retribution, with punishment, had achieved half its goal; evil repaid with kindness was shown to be what it really was, a small, petty thing, not something frightening at all, but something pitiable, a paltry affair.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

Ross Macdonald

#17. The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

Tad Williams

#18. Revenge is more wild, less calculated ... deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

Vince Flynn

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. There's always enough retribution to be dealt.

Amber Silvia