An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil GibranTags: revenge forgiveness retribution
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
Robert JordanTags: justice revenge retribution
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
Anne LamottTags: forgiveness retribution
Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, and I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.
John GrishamTags: murder justice rape retribution time-to-kill vigilante-justice
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTags: justice god patience retribution
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
William GoldmanTags: revenge retribution
Paulinus, everyone knows. Say the word, and I'll run the bitch over with my chariot
Kate QuinnTags: retribution diana
Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
"But the Almighty determines what is right!"
"Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.
Tags: morality ethics belief religion heart punishment humanism wrong right retribution altruism
He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish.
James JonesTags: fear death warfare selfishness statistics probability retribution mathematics geometry algebra payment bell machine-guns
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: kindness guilt generosity retribution
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