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“How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.”

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Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.”

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“When the kid began to flag, Riley picked her up, swung her onto his back, and kept running. The leopard in Mercy growled in approval - whatever his faults (and they were many and legend), Riley knew how to take care of the innocent.”

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Book:Branded by Fire

Source: Branded by Fire

“It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

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Book:The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.”

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Book:Hallowe'en party

Source: Hallowe'en party

“Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.”

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Book:Khalil The Heretic

Source: Khalil The Heretic

“Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.”

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Author:Boyd K. Packer

“God created every man to be free. The ability to choose whether to live free or enslaved, right or wrong, happy or in fear is something called freewill. Every man was born with freewill. Some people use it, and some people use any excuse not to. Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. And in the end, when God asks you: "Who told you to kill one of my children?" And you tell him, "My leader." He will then ask you, "And are THEY your GOD?”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem