Retribution Quotes

One can say that Javert is our conscience. The ever lurking presence of the law and our own condemnation. The tension between who we were and who we are and who we can be. Javert represents that inescapable, shameful past that forever haunts and persues one's conscience. Javert is the man of the law, and... There are no surprises with the law. The principle of retribution is simple and monotonous, like Euclidean logic. It's closed to all alternatives and shut up against divine or human intervention... Indeed, Javert represents the merciless application of the law, the blind Justice that in the end is befuddled by hope and the possibility of redemption without punishment.

~ Cristiane Serruya

The condemned man’s voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. “Remember Father, evil is simply ‘live’ spelt backwards. Hellbound

~ David Mccaffrey

Ashes, ashes.” Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.“We all fall down.

~ A.f. Stewart

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

~ William Goldman

For some offenses, there is only retribution. Nora Hawks, One Woman's Vengeance.

~ Dennis R. Miller

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

~ Lisa Gardner

Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate. You will smile at this piece of prophecy - do so, but recollect it: it is justified by all human experience. No one was ever even the involuntary cause of great evils to others, without a requital: I have paid and am paying for mine - so will you.

~ George Gordon Byron

Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back.

~ Stephen King

Everything that glitters ain't gold.

~ Nyree Ausler

Remembering the treatment that had been accorded the Knights and soldiers of St. Elmo, the Maltese inhabitants of Senglea took no prisoners. Hence there arose the expression (used in Malta to this day) 'St. Elmo's pay' for any action in which no mercy is given.

~ Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford

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

Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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 Blodgett