17 quotes
“He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?”
— Lord Byron
“The quality of mercy is not strained it falls as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath”
— William Shakespeare
“The ruler who is guided by mercy and justice earns the devotion that force can never command.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.”
— Terence
“Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.”
— William Cowper
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice through compassion”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”
— Alexander Pope
“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just through the warmth of compassion”
— Pope Francis
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done”
— Bryan Stevenson
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
— Adam Smith
“Extreme justice is often injustice.”
— Jean Racine
“Mercy and compassion are not weakness but the highest form of strength.”
— Khalil Gibran
“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just and kindness is mercy in everyday clothing”
“When we meet pain with mercy something new is born within us that is healing”
— Stephen Levine
“When a man has compassion for others, God has compassion for him.”
— Talmud
“Healing is entering with mercy and awareness those places in ourselves where we have closed our heart”
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