Judging Quotes - Page 19

• No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

  James Madison

  Men, Causes, Interest

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.43, Arcturus Publishing

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• There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done…Who has ever maintained that by judging a wrong I presuppose that I myself would be incapable of committing it?

  Hannah Arendt

  Doubt, Would Be, Done

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• Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.

  Hannah Arendt

  Essence, May, Yardsticks

  Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

  William Safire

  Order, Style, Balance

  "Essay; Seizing Dictatorial Power" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 2001.

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• We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean to the other. And we're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time, where every man doing that which is right in his own eyes-in other words, anarchy.

  Michele Bachmann

  Ocean, Book, Eye

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• If I was concerned about my legacy, there’s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about some¬thing other than the music, then that’s what it is. I’ll never make that mistake.

  Eric Church

  Mistake, Reality, Careers

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• A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong--and you are strong. The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that the religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge these propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason--but one cannot have both.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Fire, Religion

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• I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Rights, Authority

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

  George Soros

  Risk, Investing, Levels

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

  Antonin Scalia

  Court Judges, Faithful, Melting

  Speech at Chapman Law School, August 2005.

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• Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

  Stephen Breyer

  Umpires, Political, Want

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• You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment

  Stephen Breyer

  Office, Different, Lines

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• I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Running, Jewish Tradition, Years

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• The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

  William Rehnquist

  Wall, Scary, Church

  Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 1985.

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• When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions

  Robert Bork

  Assuming, Legislation, Made

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

  Alain Prost

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Nature, People, Want

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• Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,- not by his performance; which is half the world's work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man's own. I judge people by what they might be,- not are, nor will be.

  Robert Browning

  Men, People, Half

  Robert Browning (1872). “A soul's tragedy. Luria. Christmas-eve and Easter-day. Men and women”, p.32

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• If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

  Annie Proulx

  Smart, Independent, Years

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• Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Cities, Rural Areas, Judged

  Sharyn McCrumb (2013). “The Ballad of Frankie Silver: A Ballad Novel”, p.395, Macmillan

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• Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Son, Knives, Kitchen

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• My favorite judge is Simon because he is brutally honest and he thinks I'm

  Jordin Sparks

  Thinking, Honest, My Favorite

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• The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Pudding, Pieces, May

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• Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

  P. T. Barnum

  Publicity, Terrible, Happens

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• She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

  Liam Gallagher

  Book, Writing, Gum

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