Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old retribution quotes, retribution sayings, and retribution proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.Kahlil Gibran
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The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.Marcus Aurelius
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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we havEric Hoffer
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Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get. Frederick Douglas
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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
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.Martin Luther King Jr.
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Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.Libba Bray
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The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman.Henry Ford
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On him that takes revenge, revenge shall be taken, and by a real evil he shall dearly pay for the goods that are but airy and fantastical; it is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.Jeremy Taylor
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.James Baldwin
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Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. Horace
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.Saint Augustine
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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. Charles Dickens
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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
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Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force of thunder and lightning. In human affairs there must be a clear distinction between the penalties for small and great crimes. Retribution for wrongdoing must be swiftly and surely applied if greater problems are to be prevented. I Ching
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That death is not to be judged an evil which is the end of a good life; for death becomes evil only by the retribution which follows it.Saint Augustine
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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 Longellow
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On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.Paul Bloom
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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. Goodrich
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.John Calvin
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Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.Rod Serling
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Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.Hosea Ballou
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There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.Miles Franklin
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.Plato
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The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.Euripides
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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
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If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. Willie Davis
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.Mark Twain
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca