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Clemency Quotes

Camille Desmoulins quote: "Clemency is also a revolutionary measure."
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. Camille Desmoulins
Pierre Corneille quote: "Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch..."
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. Pierre Corneille
The prospect that a person will be killed according to the policy he promulgates prompts the [priest] to urge clemency, an incomprehensible position logically. Helen Prejean
Offer it up personally, then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within... Elizabeth Gilbert
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them; they can inflict on them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them; and an avalanche of miseries and maladies succeeding one another without interruption in the bosom of a family will not make it lose faith in either the clemency of its God or the capacity of its physician. Marcel Proust
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion..."
I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion of cruelty. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? Elizabeth Gilbert
What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied. Leonard Peltier
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maximilien Robespierre quote: "To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive..."
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. Maximilien Robespierre

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