There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
Mason Cooley

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.
Catherine McAuley

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
Dorothy Day

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
Jim Costa

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Gerrit Smith

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard Shaw

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
Heinrich Himmler

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
Bobby Jindal

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Winston Churchill

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.
Gennaro Angiulo

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.
Billy Hughes

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
William E. Simon

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
Saint Stephen

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
Kelly LeBrock