Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.
The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong.
Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.