Severity Quotes

Severity Quote of the day

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?'

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.

The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Kindness effects more than severity.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

I thought I could not breathe in that fine air That pure severity of perfect light I yearned for warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

Our passions may be compared to certain slaves--the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.” – Chloe Traeger