Severity Quotes

93 quotes by 85 authors

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay… — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Excessive severity misses its own aim. — Publilius Syrus
The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father. — Saadi
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. — Pierre Corneille
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others. — Alphonse Karr
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no… — Robert Ardrey
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and… — Margaret Chan
I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary… — Steven Chu
No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins — C. J. Mahaney
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? — William Lloyd Garrison
Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the… — Jules Michelet
Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around… — Peter Lewis Allen
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a… — Theodore Roosevelt
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. — Matthew Arnold
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often… — Michelle Alexander
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — Felix Frankfurter

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