“Kindness effects more than severity.”
Plus fait douceur que violence.
Book VI (1678-1679), fable 3.
Fables (1668–1679)
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Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) American politician, 17th president of the United States (in office from 1865 to 1869)
As quoted in Presidential Government in the United States: The Unwritten Constitution (1947) by Caleb Perry Patterson. <!-- p. 122 -->
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Context: Your President is now the Tribune of the people, and, thank God, I am, and intend to assert the power which the people have placed in me... Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
“The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.”
Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) American theologian
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 456.
“The most severe, audacious and effective revenge is eternal indifference.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La vendetta più severa, audace ed efficace è l’eterna indifferenza.
Source: prevale.net
“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”
William Hazlitt book The Round Table
"On Manner"
The Round Table (1815-1817)
“Consciousness, to be sure, is more effective than packets of medicine.”
The Mother (1878–1973) spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo
Her final comment on her experience of getting out of the epidemic, quoted in "Japan" (1916-20)
“Every cause produces more than one effect.”
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
On Progress: Its Law and Cause
Essays on Education (1861)
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Memo to The New Yorker (1959); reprinted in New York Times Book Review (4 December 1988)
Letters and interviews