Laura Amy Schlitz Quotes

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy.

The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

The essence of justice is mercy.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

The law is cruel.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

A policy of humanity; a policy not of party, sect or creed; but of justice, of reason and mercy

I don't want to be uncharitable or unkind. I want to be as harsh as truth and as comforting as justice.

Mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.