Clemency Quotes - Page 2

• Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Three, Mixtures

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• Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Prayer, Powerful, Generations

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• Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

  Philip Sidney

  Judging, May, Cruelty

  Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (1999). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)”, p.341, Oxford University Press, USA

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• This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.

  Booth Tarkington

  Boys, Punishment, Doe

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2564, eBookIt.com

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• A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

  Edward Gibbon

  Money, Abuse, Democracy

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.567, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Moving, Justice, Judging

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• 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

  Imperfection, Honest, Being Honest

  "Democratized Holiness: Yom Kippur And Moral Responsibility" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.

  Sekou Odinga

  Political, Facts, Asking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The New York Times and The Guardian came out and said, "Hey, clemency for Snowden." But for me, the key - and I've said this from the beginning: it's not about me. I don't care if I get clemency. I don't care what happens to me.

  Edward Snowden

  New York, Keys, Care

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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