This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.
I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr. , La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque. ]
I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
The seeds of freedom. . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers abolitionists shall shout the harvest home.
I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential.
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied. '
Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.
