Leniency Quotes

• There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

  Freda Adler

  Courage, May, Sides

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.

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• Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pardon, Total War, Offence

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 750,

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• 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

  Law, Crime, Individual

  "Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America". Book by David Hackett Fischer, 2008.

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• I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.

  Albert Gonzalez

  Long, Redemption

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• 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

  Grace, Enabling, Sin

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• We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.

  Sidney Greenberg

  Men, Thinking, Mercy Of God

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• 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

  Leadership, Community, Majority

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• People have a lot less leniency for some reason for women straying from a relationship than they do for men.

  Jason Segel

  Men, People, Reason

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• 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

  Christian, Community, Path

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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• 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

  Couple, Book, Different Universes

  "Jeremy Renner Talks Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the Avengers, the Bourne Legacy, James Gray’s Low Life, and More". Press Day Interview, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Grace is power, not just pardon.

  John Piper

  Grace, Enabling, Pardon

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• Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

  Bill Watterson

  Cannibalism, Debate, Murder

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Lying, White

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• 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

  Careers, Long, People

  "Iggy Azalea Hopes She'll Still Be 'Gyrating in a Leotard at 35'". Interview with Sarah Ball, www.gq.com. January 19, 2015.

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• 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

  People, Judging, Crime

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• 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

  Done, Athens, Higher

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