Top 41 Quotes About Leniency
#1. Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
Cardinal Richelieu
#2. He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use. Leniency. Kindness. Contradiction. Forbearance.
Nina George
#3. Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful.
Bill Watterson
#4. In the period of dictatorship, surrounded on all sides by enemies, we sometimes manifested unnecessary leniency and unnecessary softheartedness.
Krylenko,
speech at the Promparty trial
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#5. People have a lot less leniency for some reason for women straying from a relationship than they do for men.
Jason Segel
#6. He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience
and the truth
higher than life.
Jostein Gaarder
#7. When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies ... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent ...
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
#8. Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
John Piper
#9. The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.
Sandra L. Schneider
#10. Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.
Vincent De Paul
#11. What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for, they provisionally solicit indulgence by showing leniency toward the defects of their judges. Thus they pass for excellent folk.
Honore De Balzac
#12. There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Freda Adler
#13. I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.
Brendan O'Carroll
#14. In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
Azhar
#15. I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.
Albert Gonzalez
#16. Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#17. At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.
Iggy Azalea
#18. I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.
Jeremy Renner
#19. Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one's community back from the path of sin.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#20. For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole State, whereas the severities of the Prince injure individuals only.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#21. A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
Karl Kraus
#22. My scorn and contempt,' said Laurent, 'are not in need of your leniency. Lord Touars, you face me in my own kingdom, you inhabit my lands, and you breathe at my pleasure. Make your own choice.
C.S. Pacat
#23. It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'.
Joyce Rachelle
#24. Being an entrepreneur is sexy ... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.
Mark Suster
#26. Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus
#27. Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.
Lynn Mabry
#28. The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.
C. Robert Cargill
#29. Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. I'm like a connoisseur of dry shampoo, so I'm really picky.
Khloe Kardashian
#31. With genius, as with beauty
all, well almost all, is forgiven.
Susan Sontag
#32. When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.
Michael Bennet
#33. The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
Sigmund Freud
#34. [The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself
mercy ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. Benjamin Franklin had a thirteen-week plan for moral perfection in which he practiced one virtue every week so as to turn it into a habit.
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#36. I've lived with many alcoholic men over the years, and each has taught me that it is useless to worry, fruitless to ask why, suicide to try to help them. They are who they are for better and worse.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#37. Life either happens by design or default, you choose.
Bob Proctor
#38. When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.
Eyvind Kang
#39. Knowing where to look - and remembering what you have seen - is a hallmark of experience and expertise.
Tom Vanderbilt
#40. You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.
Lucy Liu
#41. Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.
Clint Johnson
