Quotes About Retributive Justice

#1. Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Lewis B. Smedes

#2. [On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

Nina Totenberg

#3. The cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way to do this was to go beyond retributive justice to restorative justice, to move on to forgiveness, because without it there was no future.

Desmond Tutu

#4. I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Paddy Ashdown

#5. Redeeming love and retributive justice joined hands, so to speak, at Calvary, for there God showed himself to be "just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.

J.I. Packer

#6. There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

Desmond Tutu

#7. If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.

Avery Dulles

#8. The heart of God's justice is to make sure that the "weak and the orphan" have received their share of God's resources for them to live and thrive. Retributive justice comes in only when that ideal is violated.

John Dominic Crossan

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

Lewis B. Smedes

#10. Warren Buffett summed up the conventional view with his usual pith: "Gold gets dug out of the ground ... we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it ... Anyone from Mars would be scratching their head."2

George Gilder

#11. Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Enrique Iglesias

#12. What men call accident is God's own part.

Philip James Bailey

#13. Somewhere in your mind there's a trace from everything you've ever seen.

Joshua Foer

#14. Nothing lasts-not even pain.

Ray Stannard Baker

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Gilly Macmillan

#16. Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.

David Jeremiah

#17. Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Thomas M. Disch

#18. Please reach out for help, your voice will save you.

Brooke Axtell

#19. Having a studio at home is like having a gym at home - sometimes you're just better off going out.

Nick Rhodes