As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue… — Leon Trotsky 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
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. — Matthew Arnold 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
“Within the realms of what goes around, resides the magnitude and severity of what comes around.” — Sandeep N. Tripathi Copy Share Image
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity,… — John Cassian 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
What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
