Harsh

"Abandoning harsh speech, he refrains from it. He speaks whatever is blameless, pleasing to the ear, agreeable, reaching the heart, urbane, pleasing and attractive to the multitude."

"I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."

"Even in the harshest places there is still wonder and beauty."

"Never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well."

"Nay, now you are too flat And mar the concord with too harsh a descant."

"For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender."

"I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak. I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground."