Quotes About Judgment

Only a fool despises tomato ketchup.)

time. Some of my friends think that Finn is cracked, but

Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.

She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.

Well Joe, the truth is that you're not a bad guy, but you have been a bit mysogynistic and homophobic. So your punishment is to make you walk the earth as a homosexual ghost buggering your old mates and aquaitances.

She's quite a nice looking lassie or she wid be if she didnae look shite.

if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw.

After a while, they realise they're in Gorgie. This part of the city makes them feel like intruders. They seem to smell the Hibernian off you over here, Renton reflects; not just the gadges coming out the bookies and boozers, but the young mothers in trackies wheeling the pushchairs, and strangely, worst of all, the auld wifies with gobs like feline ringpieces, who glower witchlike as they shamble by, sick and paranoid.

When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.

It's pleasant to get used to the expensive, the soft, the comfortable. Once you're addicted, it's so easy to become a sycophant, to trim the sails of your judgment in order to be kept on. The next step is to change your work to please those in power, and that is death to the sculptor.

You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong, but you will at least have done it, and that is the important thing. We must act according to the best dictates of our reason, and then leave God to judge its ultimate value.

The most important thing to do is to make the judge want to decide things your way, Darrow advised one of his younger partners. They are human beings, moved by the same things that move other human beings. The point of law merely give the judge a reason for doing what you have already made him want to do.

Cruelty is a child of ignorance, and someday men will stop judging and condemning each other. I am really more interested in this than anything else; I wish I could make the world kinder and more humane than it is.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

It is a difficult choice sometimes whether to feel revolted at the male sex or merely to dismiss them as contemptible.

Innumerable surveys have made it quite clear that when a respectable elderly man makes up to a giggling young lady, it is not the giggling young lady so accosted that is offended by the action, but rather the granite-faced dowager, standing unnoticed by her side, who is. It is she who makes derogatory remarks concerning dirty old men, and is quite likely to attack him with an umbrella.

It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can have brains, too.

The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that 'right' and 'wrong' are absolute; that everything that isn't perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong.

His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.

Perhaps! Your opinions are yours, of course. Still you are rather young." Dryly. "It is a fault that most people are guilty of at some period of their life. You became mayor of the city when you were two years younger than I am now.

The young man is handsome, pleasant, and extremely charming. Don't let him fool you.

We naturally see our virtues with clearer eyes than we see our defects.

In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.

If men had their way, every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin.