"Power does not pardon, power punishes."
- Amit Kalantri
"With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven."
- Susan Sontag
"The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation."
- Sandra L. Schneider
"[The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself--mercy..."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'."
- Joyce Rachelle