Leniency Quotes

• La caballerosidad tiene otra cara. Si dispensa indulgencia, puede invocar el control con igual justificación.

  Freda Adler

  Coraje, Mayo, Lados

  "Hermanas en el crimen: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Libro de Freda Adler y Herbert M. Adler, 1975.

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• Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

  Publilio Sirio

  Pardon, Total War, Offence

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 750,

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• La severidad con los individuos que desobedecen las leyes y los mandatos del Estado es por el bien público; no es posible mayor crimen contra el interés público que mostrar indulgencia con quienes lo violan.

  Cardenal Richelieu

  Law, Crime, Individual

  "Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America". Book by David Hackett Fischer, 2008.

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• I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.

  Albert Gonzalez

  Long, Redemption

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• La gracia no es simplemente indulgencia cuando hemos pecado. La gracia es el don capacitador de Dios para no pecar. La gracia es poder, no sólo perdón.

  John Piper

  Gracia, Habilitación, Pecado

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• We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.

  Sidney Greenberg

  Men, Thinking, Mercy Of God

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• Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

  Vicente de Paúl

  Leadership, Community, Majority

  San Vicente de Paúl, Pierre Coste (1990). "Correspondencia, Conferencias, Documentos: Correspondencia; enero 1640-julio 1646)"

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• Por alguna razón, la gente es mucho menos indulgente con las mujeres que se alejan de una relación que con los hombres.

  Jason Segel

  Men, People, Reason

  Fuente: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Community, Path

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). "La vida en común: Libro de oraciones de la Biblia", Fortress Pr

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• I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.

  Jeremy Renner

  Couple, Book, Different Universes

  "Jeremy Renner Talks Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the Avengers, the Bourne Legacy, James Gray’s Low Life, and More". Press Day Interview, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• La gracia es poder, no sólo perdón.

  John Piper

  Gracia, Habilitación, Perdón

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• En concreto, me gustaría debatir si el canibalismo debería ser motivo de indulgencia en los asesinatos, ya que es menos despilfarrador.

  Bill Watterson

  Cannibalism, Debate, Murder

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Libro de Bill Watterson, octubre de 1994.

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• A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Lying, White

  Karl Kraus (1976). "Verdades a medias y verdades y media: Aforismos escogidos"

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• At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

  Iggy Azalea

  Carreras, Largo, Personas

  "Iggy Azalea Hopes She'll Still Be 'Gyrating in a Leotard at 35'". Interview with Sarah Ball, www.gq.com. January 19, 2015.

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• ¿Qué moralista puede negar que las personas bien educadas y viciosas son mucho más agradables que sus homólogos virtuosos? Al tener crímenes que expiar, solicitan provisionalmente indulgencia mostrándose indulgentes con los defectos de sus jueces. Así pasan por gente excelente.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Judging, Crime

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• He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Done, Athens, Higher

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