Severity Quotes - Page 2

• Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Mouths, Honest

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• Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband

  Jules Michelet

  Husband, Fear, Wife

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• The frequency of automobile accidents is declining in North Carolina, but the severity of accidents involving bodily injury is rising in the state. That's something we will keep our eyes on in preparing our request next February.

  Tim Lucas

  Eye, North Carolina, Rising

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

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Causes, Language, Objects

  William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.63

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• 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.

  Richard Davidson

  Giving, Meditation, Mind

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• 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.

  Margaret Chan

  Worry, People, Challenges

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• Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

  Robert Ardrey

  Men, Today, Poverty

  Robert Ardrey (1966). “The Territorial Imperative”

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• Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

  Alphonse Karr

  Thinking, People, Virtue

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

  Saadi

  Father, Teaching, Masters

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• What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You move to a new area, you really need to be sure of what the laws and penalties are. You hear those things. You hear, 'Don't speed in Virginia' when you get here, just in casual conversations. What's left out is why you don't speed in Virginia. I learned the hard way, that's for sure.

  Jayson Werth

  Moving, Thinking, Law

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• Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Gay, Mirth

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.

  Leon Trotsky

  Fighting, Order, Justice

  Leon Trotsky (1958). “Diary in Exile, 1935”, Cambridge : Harvard University Press

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• I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. ... I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD.

  John Paul Stevens

  Writing, Thinking, Justice

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• Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  World, Disease, Pox

  "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.

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• But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity. Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy; and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, History, Catholic

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.292

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• Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Inspire, Mixtures

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

  Terence

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• 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.

  Henri Rousseau

  Respect, Mean, Order

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• I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

  Ian McLeod

  People, Over You, Comedy

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• A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Manners, Command, Reserves

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, 1848.

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• Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Race, Hands

  Winston Churchill (1995). “Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples”, Barnes & Noble

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• Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fate, Unhappy, Might

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.75

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• If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon lawyers who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Men, Errors, Law

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• A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fall, Grace, Neighbor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Mildness, Turns

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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