A Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian - Educator
November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

John Milton

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

Matthew Fox

Wickedness is weakness.

John Milton

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

George Sand

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

Honore de Balzac

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

Jane Austen

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

John Adams

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Arthur Helps

Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

Graham Swift

Pity is something only weakness wants.

Mabel Seeley

What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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