Top Mercy Quotes
Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
Germanicus
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Edward Sapir
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Richard Francis Burton
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
Samuel Butler 
John Calvin 
Dorothy Day 
Herman Melville 
Heinrich Himmler 
Saint Stephen 
Jo Stafford 
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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
Anselm of Canterbury 
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Frederick William Robertson
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
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Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
June Jordan
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Popular Mercy Authors
George Bernard ShawMason CooleyWilliam ShakespeareVictor HugoWinston ChurchillSamuel ButlerAbraham LincolnGeorge EliotAlexander PopeRobert FrostHenry Wadsworth LongfellowWilliam BlakeFriedrich SchillerThomas PaineJean Cocteau
Calvin CoolidgeHerman MelvilleP. J. O'RourkeBill GatesWilliam PennEdward YoungMercedes McCambridge ChanakyaWilliam Tecumseh ShermanKen KeseyThomas MertonGiacomo CasanovaSuzanne FieldsAgatha ChristieMarianne Williamson
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