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The man who pardons easily courts injury.
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Pardon? Why, sir, I beg your pardon, for if that was pardon, then fists are love and nooses are kisses. You speak of duty? Duty is the rope that strangles me. Piety is a bed of broken glass. And family is the company of hateful demons.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We need more hope. We need more mercy. We need more justice.
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I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death.
I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.
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Let us be merciful as well as just.
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Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.
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The heart has always the pardoning power.
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Grace is power, not just pardon.
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If you come with mercy but not justice; that's called enabling.
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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The law isn't merciful.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Pardon's the word to all.
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The essence of justice is mercy.
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Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.
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Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
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As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.
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Law and terrors do but harden All the while they work alone; But a sense of blood-bought pardon Will dissolve a heart of stone.
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We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
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At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.
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Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have. Those who give mercy commit an unpardonable offense to the victim. And that is not our duty here on earth.
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When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.
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Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
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The desperate hope that the patient will be healed ... That's the last treatment.
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...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.'

'What is that?'

' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
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While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything. A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him.
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The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
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When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy
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Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven't earned it, who haven't even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.
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For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
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Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
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Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.
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There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.
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Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.
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In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' "ease" but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin.
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We don't punish criminals in our enlightened age, we cure 'em; and the cure is worse than punishment.
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Be merciful until you can't be.
Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.
Then use that bullet.
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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Pardoning mercy makes way for healing mercy.
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Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
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When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
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It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.
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Justice is putting everything in its proper place
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To seek death is death's only cure.
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An eye for an eye.
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Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.
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Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us
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Medicine for the soul.
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A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.
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You could call what comes next mercy killing, but it's not, really. There's no mercy in any of us. I just want them to stop twitching. There's
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
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Only he who has the power to punish can pardon.
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Freedom or death.
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In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice
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I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder?
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Those who have received mercy are destined to extend mercy
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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
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There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
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Expediency often silences justice.
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We pardon as long as we love.
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Justice is mercy's highest self.
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There is no worse feeling than being unable to assuage the suffering of the innocent.
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We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.
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We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
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We pardon familiar vices.
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Pardon without penitence is a delusion which simple honesty requires that we expose for what it is.
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Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
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A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.
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Some things you sentence yourself to life for.
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.
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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Justice by any and all means necessary.
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
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When a man's life is under debate,
The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.
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Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.
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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.