Leniency Quotes

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

After all, clemency is by nature outside the rule of law. When conferred upon those already convicted of crimes, it unravels the decision of citizen-jurors who found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

For them an iota of forgiveness should not be given.

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

The ruler should make the utmost effort to behave gently and avoid governing harshly.

I've become really strict in a lot of ways, but I'm also very lenient. I'm kind to myself.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

there is no glory in punishing

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.

The quality of mercy is not strained

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.

We don't charge people for making a mistake or doing something foolish.

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

Let them up easy.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

Mercy surpasses justice.