Amnesty (n.) is like a bankruptcy, the debt is gone and everyone still remembers who owed it
Amnesty (n.) is forgiveness offered by people who were never the ones wronged
Amnesty (n.) is the most beautiful word in all human speech.
Amnesty (n.) is a noble word. What it stands for is the true dictate of wisdom.
Clemency (n.) is decided by one person, usually in the last days of their term.
Clemency (n.) tells the prisoner that the law was right and the ruler is kind.
Clemency (n.) arrives, when it arrives, after the sentence has already done most of its work.
Clemency (n.) costs the giver nothing, which is why it is rationed so carefully.
Indulgence (n.) is a parent saying yes now so somebody else will have to say no later.
Indulgence (n.) is dessert that comes with a speech about how you never do this.
Indulgence (n.) is like opening a window in a house you still have to heat.
An Indulgence (n.) stops being one the moment it happens twice in the same week.
Self-forgiving (n.) is like grading your own paper and still deciding to round up.
Self-forgiving (n.) is often lent by ourselves to ourselves for the wrong things: for what we could have helped, instead or what we couldn't.