#retribution

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#bring #commit #conviction #crimes #criminal

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#built #consequences #divine #his #i

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#nature #outraged #retribution

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#absolutely #aids #argument #being #crap

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. ↗

— Ron Silver

#careers #damage #fear #public #retribution

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled." - from "The Tarishe Curse ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#retaliation #retribution #revenge #richelle #richelle-goodrich

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

#court #disaster #forces #gods #listening

The Ketty Jay was staffed with drunkards and drifters, all of them running from something -- whether it be memories or enemies or the drudgery of land-bound life -- but since Yortland they'd been running in the same direction. United by that common purpose, they'd begun to turn into something resembling a crew. And Frey had begun to turn into something resembling a captain. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#retribution-fals #steampunk #life

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon. ↗

— Paul Begala

#bush #campaign #compliant #congress #embark

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#retribution #revenge #forgiveness