"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency;……" — Maximilien Robespierre

More Clemency Quotes

This quote is filed under Clemency Quotes, one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for… — Abraham Lincoln
• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency,… — Ron Franscell
• Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency… — Pope Pius IX
• The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler… — Seneca the Younger
• I don't wanna die, I'm not gonna lie to you I admit that and I'm not asking for clemency, I'm… — Ted Bundy
• The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be… — Henry McNeal Turner
• In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable… — Octavius Winslow
• Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods. — Claudius Claudianus
• Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without… — Saadi
• A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute… — Edward Gibbon
• Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. — Camille Desmoulins

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