Quotes About Leniency

When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent...

Leniency toward criminals contrasted starkly with severity toward the law-abiding citizen's right to defend himself or herself.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

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

Leniency and mercy. Men set free despite crimes, because they were good fathers, or well liked in the community, or in the favor of someone important. "Some of those who are set free change their lives and go on to produce for society. Others recidivate and create great tragedies. The thing is, Szeth son Neturo, we humans are terrible at spotting which will be which. The purpose of the law is so we do not have to choose. So our native sentimentality will not harm us.

No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.

Mercy is defined as kindness or forgiveness given to someone who is within your power to punish. To show mercy means to give up retribution, sometimes at the cost of justice.

if the districts lose, there's still a chance of leniency for you.

For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole State, whereas the severities of the Prince injure individuals only.

I would ask you, dearest, to be very generous with him always, and very lenient on his faults when he is not by. I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.

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.

Why should there be a different set of laws for criminals who are juveniles? As far as I am concerned there should be no reason for any leniency.

Sometimes officials should look at English football and let us play more. I like their system because, in Europe, their referees are more lenient.

In July 2000 a court in Kalamazoo, Michigan, gave an unusually lenient sentence to José Rodriguez, a member of a street gang called the Latin Kings who had been found guilty of firebombing. According to a report in the Holland Sentinel, a local newspaper, the defendant's counsel 'noted that Rodriguez was a unique person because he reads the encyclopedia and dictionary for pleasure'.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Stubbornness is not the opposite of leniency, but the extension of tolerance.

Have you come to throw yourself on the mercy of the crown? Perhaps you hope the Queen of Elfhame will show leniency.' Madoc barks out a laugh, his gaze going to me. 'Daughter, every time I think you cannot rise any higher, you prove me wrong,' he says. 'And I a fool to wonder if you were even still alive.' 'I am alive,' I say. 'No thanks to you.

I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

I'm very tough on crimes where there are victims who have been physically harmed. In such cases, I do not believe in leniency.

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

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

Because I've been around a long time I get a bit of leeway that other people don't.

Una vez es suficiente —explicó el maestro— cuando el juez, tras el análisis de la causa, se decida por el perdón. Diez veces, sin embargo, deberá pensar el magistrado siempre que esté inclinado a dar sentencia condenatoria

Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call us barbarians. - Longinus Sdapeze