“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.” IfsLiteratureSpeakJusticeBloodPrayingCreaturesMercyInnocentShedNobelPraying To God Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.” PeopleHappensUsedLiteratureSexMiddleCryDramaPagesMercyFilledPartnersUsed To BeEngagedNegotiationPornographyManualsBonfire Author:Laura Antoniou
“The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.” LiteratureMercyCruelty Author:Ken Kesey
“Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as we pour into all our schools the songs, the poems, and literature of mercy toward these lower creatures, just so soon and so far shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty, but of crime.” BelieveSchoolSongLiteratureI BelieveAnimalRaceCrimeCreaturesEthicsStandingRootsMercyCrueltyPetAnimal Ethics Author:George Thorndike Angell
“Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.” ThinkingMightLiteratureJusticeMercyAsking Author:Mason Cooley
“A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.” SoulNightCertainLiteraturePrayerPrideMercyAweOfferingOffering To God Book:James Joyce The Dover Reader Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader
“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.” GodShowsHandsLiteratureReligiousMercyFolks Author:George Eliot