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• Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Catholic, Church, Example

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• When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Healing, Eye

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.252, Random House

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• If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another. The problem is in making a lobby of this tendency: a lobby of misers, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of masons, so many lobbies.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Gay, Problem

  Press conference of Pope Francis during the return flight from Rio de Janeiro, w2.vatican.va. July 28, 2013.

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• The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

  Madame Roland

  Wise, People, Opinion

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• We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Horse, Pace, Walks

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Confused, Fall

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 15 (1733)

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• No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Law, Doe

  Charles Grandison Finney (1846). “Lectures on Systematic Theology: Embracing Lectures on Moral Government, Together with Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Regeneration, Philosophical Theories, and Evidences of Regeneration”, p.435

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• We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Belief, Action

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• Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

  Abdul Kalam

  Respect, Self Esteem, Self Reliance

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• First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Real, Doe, Firsts

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• Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

  Mike Judge

  Dance, Fashion, Thinking

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• If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, People, Way

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• I am not against Botox and I would never judge anyone else for getting any kind of surgical or nonsurgical procedure, but I think when you`re young there are other ways you can look after your skin. [...] Botox just wasn't necessary for me at this age.

  Kim Kardashian

  Thinking, Age, Skins

  "Showbiz Tonight" with A.J. Hammer and Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Creative, Community

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.9, Book Tree

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• If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them is conclusive upon the other departments, it may be answered, that this cannot be the natural presumption, where it is not be collected from any particular provisions in the Constitution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  May, Body, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

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• One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gratitude, Politics, Merit

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• [T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Law, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Agency, Causes

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.525, Harvard University Press

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• If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Independent, Justice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864). “The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes”, p.544, New York : C. Scribner ; London : Sampson Low

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• The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Two, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, Loud Voices, Hands

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Translated from the French”, p.1

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• The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election . . . They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Mean, Distribution Of Power

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

  John Donne

  Peace, Men, Long

  John Donne, Michael Rudick, M. Pabst Battin (1982). “Biathanatos”, New York : Garland Pub.

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• We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Mother, Lying, Science

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• One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Power, Self, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 85, 1799.

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