8 Quotes Tagged: retribution

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One day I woke up and realized no amount of love, care, pain, hurt, anger, or retribution could ever transform those who are evil into good or kind people. That day I let go; I stopped caring for them, gave up any hope for their souls, and knew they were never worthy of me or my time.

Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear anymore.

"Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments."

[On Water]

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

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter (1883–1931)

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(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

Anne Lamott, American novelist and non-fiction writer

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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.

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.

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