Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.

Evil gains work their punishment.

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are only consequences.

Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it.

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.