Severity Quotes

Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

Martial Law should be less stringent in places and countries fully occupied and fairly conquered. Much greater severity may be exercised in places or regions where actual hostilities exist, or are expected and must be prepared for. Its most complete sway is allowed—even in the commander's own country—when face to face with the enemy, because of the absolute necessities of the case, and of the paramount duty to defend the country against invasion. To save the country is paramount to all other considerations

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment.

… nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

The issues that we're having with water are worse and the magnitude is bigger than anything I imagined possible.

Kindness effects more than severity.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

On pain of death, no person be so bold.

The Queen returns these communications to Sir James Graham, which are of a very unpleasant nature. The Queen trusts that measures of the greatest severity will be taken, as well to suppress the revolutionary spirit as to bring the culprits to immediate trial and punishment. The Queen thinks this of the greatest importance with respect to the effect it may have in Ireland, likewise as proving that the Government is willing to show great forbearance, and to trust to the good sense of the people; but that if outrages are committed and it is called upon to act, it is not to be trifled with, but will visit wrong-doers with the utmost severity.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

Terror, salutary terror, is here in truth the order of the day; it represses all the efforts of the wicked ; it divests crime of all covering and tinsel!

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

I'm not an austere person.

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.