Mercy Quotes

Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

— Sometimes it is better to answer injustice with mercy.
— I will answer injustice with justice.

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— What madness led you to tell the queen you had learned the truth about Joffrey's birth?
— The madness of mercy. That she might save her children.
— Ah, the chiIdren. lt's aIways the innocents who suffer. It wasn't the wine that killed Robert, nor the boar. The wine sIowed him down and the boar ripped him open, but it was your mercy
that kiIIed the king.

— Poor Bluebell had to go.
— Your compassion is overwhelming!
— I know. I hate myself sometimes.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings

Gandalf

Death

He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.
But the Gospels actually taught this: before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well-connected. So it goes.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse Five or, The Children's Crusade

Murder

Bible

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

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Bible. New Testament

Gospel of Matthew

Greatness is not being strong but using strength to carry the most hearts.

Fortitude, Strength Of Mind

Be kind for everyone is fighting a hard battle. Be kind.

You have a good heart. It'll get us all killed.

When given the choice between being right or kind, choose kind.

Sometimes the greatest acts of love are the hardest acts to commit.

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

In my mind it’s the certainty in myself that I possess which allows me to have that kind of mercy or compassion. The fact is I’m never gonna be killed! So remember this: mercy and compassion are virtues that only the strong are privileged to possess. And I am strong.

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