Retributive Justice Quotes

“If our desire for justice is not rooted primarily in the pursuit of restoration, then reconciliation will be nearly impossible to achieve. It is precisely because grace is undeserved that makes it grace.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“If our social justice is guided by retribution, we will simply perpetuate the use and abuse of power to inflict violence.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“It is entirely possible to work for justice without thirsting for blood.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“What is it, I wonder, that they hope to Correct? I am what I am, irredeemably, irretrievably, implacably — as are most of my fellow desperadoes here in Correctional Facility.
We are monsters.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Dead

“Death would be too easy. Death would let him off the hook. Life, though, life with the knowledge that Daisy knew what he'd done and who he was... that would be close to intolerable for a man as proud as Hal Shoemaker. Let him live, like a parachutist with his straps cut, tumbling down and down, forever. Let him live, with his every moment a torment, every hour burning.”
― Jennifer Weiner, That Summer