Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

With awareness come responsibility and choice.

It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental.

I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.

A first impulse was never a crime.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Justice is truth in action.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.

The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm capable.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.