#severity

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

#emergencies #ever #fall #guilty #hand

Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cheating

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#law #motive #pity #severity #softened

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#before #decision #depending #easy #feeling

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#many #others #people #severity #think

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

#correcting #discourage #effort #faults #liable

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. ↗

— David Suzuki

#been #decades #global #global warming #impacts

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