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“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You can't leave us all here to die, Alina!' the Darkling shouted. 'If you take this step, you know where it will lead.'
I felt a hysterical laugh burble up inside me. I knew. I knew it would make me more like him.
'You begged me for clemency once,' he called over the dead reaches of the Fold, over the hungry shrieks of the horrors he had made. 'Is this your idea of mercy?'
Another bullet hit the sand, only inches from us. Yes, I thought as the power rose up inside me, the mercy you taught me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“[The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself--mercy...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“[W]hat befell the philosophers in AD 529 was not just one single law but a staccato burst of legal aggression issued by Justinian. 鈥榊our Clemency . . . the Glorious and Indulgent鈥� Justinian is how laws of this period referred to him. Justinian鈥檚 reverence, the legal code of the time announced, shone out 鈥榓s a specially pure light, like that of a star鈥�, while Justinian himself was referred to as 鈥榊our Holiness鈥�; the 鈥楪lorious emperor鈥�.
There was little glorious or indulgent about what was coming. And there was certainly nothing that was clement. This was the end. The 鈥榠mpious and wicked pagans鈥� were to be allowed to continue in their 鈥榠nsane error鈥� no longer. Anyone who refused salvation in the next life would, from now on, be all but damned in this one. A series of legal hammer blows fell: anyone who offered sacrifice would be executed. Anyone who worshipped statues would be executed. Anyone who was baptized 鈥� but who then continued to sacrifice 鈥� they, too, would be executed. The laws went further. This was no longer mere prohibition of other religious practices. It was the active enforcement of Christianity on every single, sinful pagan in the empire. The roads to error were being closed, forcefully. Everyone now had to become Christian. Every single person in the empire who had not yet been baptized now had to come forward immediately, go to the holy churches and 鈥榚ntirely abandon the former error [and] receive saving baptism鈥�. Those who refused would be stripped of all their property, movable and immovable, lose their civil rights, be left in penury and, 鈥榠n addition鈥� 鈥� as if what had gone before was not punishment but mere preamble, they would be 鈥榮ubject to the proper punishment鈥�. If any man did not immediately hurry to the 鈥榟oly churches鈥� with his family and force them also to be baptized, then he would suffer all of the above 鈥� and then he would be exiled. The 鈥榠nsane error鈥� of paganism was to be wiped from the face of the earth.”
― Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

“With Lean Leniency by Stewart Stafford

Office handshakes and smiles,
''Coffee or tea? Have a seat!
Now, how can we help you?''
Hmm, now the cuff clicks.

Clemency, a non-rider in a hunt,
Cuckoo in power's tower eyrie,
Financial fingers punch down,
Then coldly count the money.

Victimless crime, perp's bounty,
Assailants with a whiff of coin,
Left for dead, dripping liquidity,
Drain death. Good mourning, sir.

漏 Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford

“Never foresee clemency
be it from flower or pebble
amidst frenzy gales.

(Haiku)”
― Monika Ajay Kaul