Quote by Camille Desmoulins

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Summary

This quote suggests that granting clemency, or mercy, can be seen as a revolutionary action. Typically associated with leadership and governance, clemency challenges established norms and systems by deviating from strict punishment and showing compassion. By extending forgiveness and leniency, clemency has the power to disrupt oppressive structures and emphasize the value of second chances. It represents a departure from the traditional notions of justice and punishment, introducing a transformative approach that promotes understanding, healing, and potentially breaking the cycles of violence or oppression.

Topics

Revolution

By Camille Desmoulins

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, an

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

Joseph Fort Newton

Duty

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher level

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Love

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.

Life Beauty Appreciation

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Sir Winston Churchill

Success can't be forced.

Success can't be forced.

Success

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Ra

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

Wishes Wish Wishing

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action

Happiness

Every singly lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have cho

Every singly lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have chosen me. Forever.

Life Time Love Forever Incarnation Heartwarming Starcrossed

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbari

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know t

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Recognition

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty tho

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Robert M. Pirsig

Philosophy