Wesley Snipes Quotes

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

The offender never pardons.

Amnesty—an act through which sovereigns forgive the injustices they have committed.

Mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Clemency is patricide

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

One who is to be pardoned should not be harassed.

I do not believe on giving amnesty.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

A king who desires his own welfare must always forgive litigants, infants, aged and sick men, who inveigh against him.

It is better to pardon the guilty than to take the lives of the innocent

Many without punishment, but none without sin.

For them an iota of forgiveness should not be given.

No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.

We need Grace and forgiveness.

'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will.

After all, clemency is by nature outside the rule of law. When conferred upon those already convicted of crimes, it unravels the decision of citizen-jurors who found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

In the end, granting mercy comes down to just two people. For the recipient, the pardon is freedom. For the politician, the pardon can mean - not surprisingly - political gain.