Now, that is what I call retributive justice; for she threw down the chair for him to stumble over, and, if he has grazed his knees, she suffers under a torn dress, and must retire until one of the maids darn up the rent. ❋ William Francis Dawson (N/A)
If Israel simply protects itself without lashing out in retributive violence, they may eventually gain a Palestinian negotiating partner amenable to peace and capable of enforcing it among its own people. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She thought she saw clearly, that their unnatural bereavement was a blow dealt in retributive justice; but she found it not in her heart to exult or rejoice over them. ❋ Olive Truth Gilbert (1850)
But if you want to treat Israel as just another nation-state engaged in retributive ethnic cleansing, that’s just fine, as long as you’re honest about it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Penal justice (sometimes referred to as retributive justice), for example, concerns the punishment of offenders for their legal and/or moral offences, and is to be distinguished from distributive justice. ❋ Miller, Seumas (2007)
Such is the notion of retributive justice in the Highlands. ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)
The jurist, therefore, in a matter of criminal adjudication, entirely loses sight of the personal conditions of the accused, and the social conditions of the community, and confines his attention to the deed, and to the maxims of a so-called retributive justice. ❋ Unknown (1899)
The sentiment expressed in the penult couplet is not uncommon, the idea of retributive justice, of others performing the last offices for the clerk who had so often done the like for his neighbours. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Although Lewis notes that some people object to the idea of retributive punishment, retribution is the only thing that makes sure that punishment is just. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Link killing,life imprisonment and all other kind of retributive justices are just what they are,punishments. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Progressive ethicists today find it hard to defend any kind of retributive theory of punishment, let alone the scapegoat theory - executing an innocent to pay for the sins of the guilty. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)
Parker believed he was helping slaves by supporting John Brown, but the massacre actually resulted in "retributive" violence directed at slaves not involved with the uprising, making their condition worse. ❋ Unknown (2005)
That some kind of retributive justice holds things to the right order is indicated in ❋ JULIUS WEINBERG (1968)
American, he believes in the manifest destiny of Russia, and looks forward to the not distant time when, with a kind of retributive justice, the ❋ Various (N/A)
I now thought I had acquired knowledge and caution sufficient to avail myself of Uncle Jack's ideas, without ruining myself by following them out in his company; and I saw a kind of retributive justice in making his brain minister to the fortunes which his ideality and constructiveness, according to Squills, had served so notably to impoverish. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
The sentence that I meant to characterize as retributive was this: “Surely if we can objectify women’s bodies, deny them autonomy over their own bodies, we can do the same to men, no?” ❋ Unknown (2006)
I felt this more keenly because my teenage son was with me: would you want him to sympathise with this kind of retributive sexualised violence? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yet this almost pales in comparison to the retributive, harsh treatment and excessive full-body searches being meted out to those who decline a full-body scan, which is still optional. ❋ John W. Whitehead (2010)
[The death] [penalty] is a common form of retribution for [murder] ❋ Shibata12 (2007)
[The death] [penalty] is a common form of retribution for [murder] ❋ Shibata12 (2007)
BITCH GET [OUTTA] THE WAY! [THE TRUCK'S] COMING RIGHT FOR US
Damn so that's [divine retribution]... ❋ Oradio10 (2021)
I found out he was cheating, so I Bloody Retributioned his ass... [the picture's] on my [fridge]. Don't you just love [unicorns]? ❋ Angelicacharisma (2012)
[Bridget]: My dad was an a-hole and sold my super cute 2004 carolla without my permission!
Eden: Oh my god! What did you do?
Bridget: I bought an even cuter 1987 2-door BMW in amazing condition. I [paid in full] so the title is [in my name] and sent him some pics of the new vehicle.
Eden: Nice retribution car! ❋ Gahana (2006)
Hey, last night in [sneaked] into my ex-girlfriends house and shit in her clothes [hamper].
Wow, [that's what] I call fecal retribution. ❋ Dmetz (2010)
"It went really well until I got some [tainted retribution]"
"My boyfriend really wanted to try butt sex [for the longest] time, so to turn him off from it I gave him a tainted retribution the first time [we did it]" ❋ Ash0ka (2009)
[Team retribution] is a [doodoo] team and [folds] to anything or anyone that challenges them ❋ Daddy Speedsofter (2021)
Person 1: Have you heard of [Team retribution]?
Person 2: Is that the [team] with [the leader] that can't speak for the whole team?
Person 1: Yeah. That's them. ❋ PandaOnTop (2021)
Hym "But don't try to frame it as some kind of [karmic retribution]. That isn't what it is. I've sat here for an enitre year watching you toss up sandbags to try and divert the current into the river of karmic retribution as you project your [profit motive] and desire for attention on to me. If whoever that was would have kept their moth shut about 'a plagiarism' we wouldn't be here right now. What I was doing wouldn't have effected ANYONE. And now you don't like the effect it's had. And if you DO like the effect it's had, the 'effect' you're enjoying is 'at least 1 death child.' Is that YOUR karmic retribution? Is that KARMA Taylor? The [dead kid] that killed himself after watching the show where [Tsugumi] Ohba ripped a monologue off Urban Dictionary as an introduction to the show's final antagonist. Oh yes! I feel the karma! I can taste the irony! Bet you didn't know that. Bet you didn't know that my karmic retribution didn't effect me as much as it did that kid's parents." ❋ Hym Iam (2023)