Severity Quotes - Page 4

• It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Laughter, Sunshine

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.246, Cambridge University Press

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• The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

  Joseph Addison

  Sight, Aggravation, Parent

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• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Boys, Effort

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.78, Delphi Classics

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Done, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.132, Ravenio Books

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• The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

  Ben Bernanke

  Bankers, Economics, Crash

  "A Crash Course for Central Bankers" by Ben Bernanke, foreignpolicy.com. Novemeber 20, 2009.

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• Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

  William Blackstone

  Punishment, People, Hell

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• An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

  George Catlin

  Taken, Rain, Winter

  George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.46

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• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Love, Faith, Peace

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• Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Weather

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• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Political

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.525, Рипол Классик

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• What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To be listened to in her teaching, To be endured in the severity of her discipline, To be cared for as a maternal source from whence we come, a destiny to which we return. It's very simple.

  Thomas Berry

  Teaching, Simple, Destiny

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

  Cesare Beccaria

  Punishment, Crime, Certainty

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• Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, People, South Carolina

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.228

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• ...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Gold, Intensity, Crisis

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38 - is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities and would not have occurred under earlier monetary and banking arrangements.

  Milton Friedman

  Omission, Historical, Banking

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

  Dee Wallace

  Challenges, Actors, Ifs

  Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.

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• Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master.

  Thomas Hodgskin

  Dog, Men, Hunting

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• Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

  William Wells Brown

  Responsibility, Tyrants, Numbers

  William Wells Brown (1853). “Clotel; or, The president's daughter”, p.179

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• When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."

  Monty Roberts

  Horse, Lying, Hands

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• In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.

  Ida B. Wells

  Intimidation, Submissive, Slave

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2015). “The Red Record: Top Crime Collections”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wish, Prejudice

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.323

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• Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Fall, Compassion, Hands

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.338

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• A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Cheating, Truth, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• Kindness effects more than severity.

  Aesop

  Kindness, Parenting, Effects

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Freedom, School, Self Confidence

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