As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
