Clemency Quotes
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Clemency Quotes & Sayings
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
— Bodhidharma
Courage and clemency are equal virtues.
— Delarivier Manley
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
— Claudius Claudianus
Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
— Saadi
I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless
— Chris Cleave
The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There are in you two qualities that God loves: clemency [al-hilm] and forbearance [al-ana, "nobleness," "tolerance"].
— Tariq Ramadan
Continuity is how you build a physique,
— Frank Zane
Admitting your mistakes makes you humble. But not repeating your mistakes makes you clever.
— Sarvesh Jain
The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.
— Joyce Rachelle
There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'
— Bill Maher
Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand
— Jill Mansell
I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.
— Alexa Chung
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness ...
— Abraham Lincoln
To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
— Jonathan Sacks
If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.
— Bill Moggridge
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
— Camille Desmoulins
I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
— Kara Hayward
[The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself
mercy ... — Friedrich Nietzsche
mercy ... — Friedrich Nietzsche
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
— Antoine Rivarol
We don't know the contour of feeling;
we only know what molds it from without. — Rainer Maria Rilke
we only know what molds it from without. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Common sense often makes a good law.
— William O. Douglas
I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
— Noam Chomsky
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.
— Joyce Meyer
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
— Pierre Corneille
Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
— Maximilien De Robespierre