
„Mercy is of greater value than justice.“
— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747
La clémence vaut mieux que la justice.
Источник: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
Fisher v. Prince (1762), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1365.
— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747
La clémence vaut mieux que la justice.
Источник: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
— Aung San Suu Kyi State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy 1945
In Quest of Democracy (1991)
— Benjamin Jowett Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator 1817 - 1893
Actually from one of John Dewey's lectures, reprinted in his Reconstruction in Philosophy (2004), p. 96.
Misattributed
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
In some trifling particulars, the condition of that race has been ameliorated; but, as a whole, in this country, the change between then and now is decidedly the other way; and their ultimate destiny has never appeared so hopeless as in the last three or four years. In two of the five states — New Jersey and North Carolina — that then gave the free negro the right of voting, the right has since been taken away; and in a third — New York — it has been greatly abridged; while it has not been extended, so far as I know, to a single additional state, though the number of the States has more than doubled.
1850s, Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (1857)
— Simone Weil French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist 1909 - 1943
Il n'est possible d'aimer et d'être juste que si l'on connaît l'empire de la force et si l'on sait ne pas le respecter.
Источник: The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 192
— John Locke, книга Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 98
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Контексте: He will better comprehend the foundations and measures of decency and justice, and have livelier, and more lasting impressions of what he ought to do, by giving his opinion on cases propos'd, and reasoning with his tutor on fit instances, than by giving a silent, negligent, sleepy audience to his tutor's lectures; and much more than by captious logical disputes, or set declamations of his own, upon any question. The one sets the thoughts upon wit and false colours, and not upon truth; the other teaches fallacy, wrangling, and opiniatry; and they are both of them things that spoil the judgment, and put a man out of the way of right and fair reasoning; and therefore carefully to be avoided by one who would improve himself, and be acceptable to others.
— Clarence Darrow American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union 1857 - 1938
Interview in Chicago (April 1936)
— Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury British politician 1830 - 1903
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1882/jun/05/motion-for-papers in the House of Lords (5 June 1882)
1880s
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
Remarks by President Obama in Address to the United Nations General Assembly (24 September 2013) http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/24/remarks-president-obama-address-united-nations-general-assembly
2013
— Alex Salmond Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland 1954
Cardinal Winning Lecture (February 2, 2008)
Контексте: When we consider the ideals - the values - that we should foster in Scotland's young people, we can think of the words inscribed on the mace of the Scottish Parliament. Words that help describe the values for our whole democracy: justice, wisdom, integrity and compassion. Values that are - and have always been - at the heart of Catholic education in Scotland.
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Контексте: A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
— Gustav Radbruch German politician 1878 - 1949
"Five Minutes of Legal Philosophy" (1945)
— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946
Speech in Frankfurt (3 March 1933), as quoted in Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny (1956) by Edward Crankshaw, p. 48
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
— Jack McDevitt American novelist, Short story writer 1935
Epilogue (p. 421)
Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006)
— Socrates classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470 - -399 до н.э.
Plato, Phaedo
— Robert A. Heinlein American science fiction author 1907 - 1988
“Coventry”, pp. 500-501; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction (July 1940)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
— Elena Kagan Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1960
Senate Confirmation Hearing, reported in David Espo, " Analysis: Republicans resurrect Marshall as target http://web.archive.org/web/20100702142210/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h6FlOApxiNud4gJ6OmuRTVhjHV9wD9GL2SJO1", Associated Press (29 June 2010).
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Misattributed
Источник: This appears to originate in April 2014 with an unsourced entry in picturequotes: http://www.picturequotes.com/striving-quotes
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Albert Einstein / Misattributed