Judgments Quotes

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Increasingly, “left” and “right” don’t just describe divergent political judgments but also sealed-off understandings of what is true and how we know it.

For many years I have known a good deal about international arbitrations and I have never known of one in which both nations in controversy did not benefit more from having the question between them settled than either gained from a favorable judgment or lost by an unfavorable one.

Full disclosure: James Comey is a friend. I won't pretend to neutrality about him. He is a highly honorable and decent person, and I have no doubt that he made the many judgments for which people loathe him in good faith.

Never prevent men from forming judgments according to their intellect

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

Society, by setting forth clear penalties for certain kinds of conduct sets its public ratification on moral judgments that this is wrong behavior and that it is deserving of punishment irrespective of whether the punishment will deter, rehabilitate or anything else. It is a way of society of defining what is wrong and what is seriously wrong.

Make your judgments and then you don't have to worry about it. You're always going to have those people who are offended about every little thing.

For all laws are general judgments, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgment is a law to him whose case is judged.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

No one can demand that you be neutral toward the crime of genocide. If there is a judge in the whole world who can be neutral toward this crime, that judge is not fit to sit in judgment.

That's the beauty of democracy — you believe what you believe, I believe what I believe, and as long as we're not hurting each other, that's fine. Placing a value judgment on a person's beliefs has no place in a democracy.

Whatever people think, is.

Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.

I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.

These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Leaders and statesmen are always making mistakes and misjudgments.

We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.