Severity Quotes

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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria
...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises. — Hans F. Sennholz
I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33,… — Milton Friedman
If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an… — Dee Wallace
What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in… — Thomas Berry
This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture â€” of sinfulness and hell and Godâ€™s notable severity â€” is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man… — Matt Chandler
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can… — Friedrich Nietzsche
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and… — Walter Brueggemann
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon… — Simon Greenleaf
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to… — Thomas Hodgskin
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. — Samuel Johnson
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. — William Wells Brown
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till… — Samuel Johnson
Kindness effects more than severity. — Aesop
Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the… — Richard Davidson
... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity, for 'a stern… — John Cassian
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 learned here. You… — Jayson Werth
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as… — John Paul Stevens
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly,… — Leon Trotsky

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