For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.
Dennis R. MillerTag: revenge betrayal retribution vengeance
Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?
Karma is not an inviolate engine of cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results, and consequences.
Receiving misfortune does not necessarily indicate that one has committed evil. But it is a sufficient indicator of something else.
And that something else can be anything, as long as it is a logical consequence of what has come before.
Consider: if you fall into a well, you are not a bad person who deserves to suffer—you are merely someone who took a wrong step. Or someone who had one drink too many. Or got a head rush due to poor circulation. Or forgot to wear your glasses. Or—
The reasons are plentiful, and all plausible. But the chain of cause and effect goes way, way back into the deepest hoariest recesses of your personal past.
So never rule out retribution. But never expect it.
Tag: justice debt consequences cause effect retribution karma cause-and-effect karmic-debt karmic smackdown
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.
Tag: justice prison punishment poverty homelessness greed racism retribution desperation imprisonment jail unemployment criminal-justice-system crimes cycle-of-violence incarceration
Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...
Tamara Rose BlodgettTag: retribution zombies descriptive-prose
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.
Orson Scott CardTag: past future retribution
Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past's future.
Jackson BurnettTag: justice law jurisprudence lawyers retribution legal-system crime-and-punishment
Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers—vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: retaliation revenge destruction deceit retribution vengeance compensation richelle richelle-goodrich beguiling
Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: retaliation revenge retribution vengeance richelle richelle-goodrich getting-even
Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody.
Alan HeathcockTag: justice revenge retribution loss-of-faith justice-without-mercy the-big-peace
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 RothTag: revenge retribution abuse
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