Judging Quotes - Page 19

• It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.

  Annie Dillard

  Believe, Imagination, Common Sense

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.146, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Do you know who will go first on the Day of Resurrection to the shade of God...Those who when given what is right accept it, when asked for something give freely and who judge in favor of others as they do for themselves."

  Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

  Positive, Giving, Favors

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• We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Happy Accidents, Tendencies

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• When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Future, Issues, Vision

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• Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the office of Judges should be like the laws, which approach punishment not in a spirit of anger but in one of equity.

  Johannes Voet

  Lying, Anger, Law

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• Never judge a work of art by its defects.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Umpires, Advice

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• The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

  Jean Baudrillard

  God, Cat, Order

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• A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

  Francis Thompson

  Dog, Men, Doe

  Francis Thompson (1913*). “Prose [works].”

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• They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting judges, all the way down to laundering money. Everything but the Lindbergh baby.

  Don King

  Baby, Fighting, Men

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• I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No difference. Only what you do. They both feel the same. They both fear dying and getting hurt. The man who is yellow refuses to face up to what he's got to face. The hero is more disciplined and he fights those feelings off and he does what he has to do. But they both feel the same, the hero and the coward. People who watch you judge you on what you do, not how you fee.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hurt, Hero, Kids

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• You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

  Antony Jay

  Leadership, Jobs, People

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Life, Death, Pain

  "Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".

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• We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

  Edward Abbey

  Character, Men, Race

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Fearless

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• The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Law, Branches

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.525, Princeton University Press

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• And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Wife, Rotten

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.10, e-artnow

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• One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

  Orson Scott Card

  Prayer, Thinking, Wife

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.230, Macmillan

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• The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, Home, Loss

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• 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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  They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

  Lana Del Rey

  Book, Color, Judge Me

  Song: Brooklyn Baby, Album: Ultraviolence, 2014

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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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• Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Essence, Way, Evaluation

  "Nietzsche and Philosophy" by Gilles Deleuze, translated by Hugh Tomlinson, (p. 1), 1962.

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• From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

  Polybius

  Serious, Study, Harm

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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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