Pauline Marois Quotes

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

Travel teaches tolerance.

It's really wrong to judge someone because of their beliefs.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.

I wouldn't say that I have overcome opposition so much as I have tried to understand it. The lash of judgment carries a wounding sting, and there's a deeply instinctual tendency to want to respond in kind. I am not proud that my thoughts were blackened with vile opinions about the nature of those who were attacking me.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

I celebrate everyone’s opinion even if I disagree with it.

I don't like bigotry and intolerance, but they do exist and I don't think you're going to get them out by passing laws.

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home. I do not like after- shave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation …

I have no more right to object to a man for holding a different opinion from mine than I have to differ with a man because he wears a wig and I wear my own hair; but if he takes his wig off and shakes the powder in my face, I shall consider it my duty to get quit of him as soon as possible..

Since opinions do not find in me a ready soil to thrust and spread their roots into, no premise shocks me, no belief hurts me, no matter how opposite to my own they may be.

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

Replace judgment with curiosity.