The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'."
Retribution quotes
Retribution
42 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Henry Rollins
Musician, Writer, Actor
"All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution."
Euripides
Playwright
"God gives each his due at the time allotted."
Euripides
Playwright
"The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength."
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"The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'."
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"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule."
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"Get ready to die, tell God I say hi."
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"My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts."
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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."
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"Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based."
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"The best revenge is to always survive yourself."
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"I wanna piss on his head, I want his family dead."
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"Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind."
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