Quotes About Judgment

Itulah yang disebut undang-undang: tebakan cerdas mengenai yang benar dan salah. [P. 235]

The scythedom was cursed with idiots.

Dans la vie, on voit ce qui peut être accompli, on pèse le pour et le contre et ensuite on saisit l'opportunité. — Henry

It's always the lesser of two evils. I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

E, a meu ver, todos são inocentes. Mesmo os culpados. Todo mundo é culpado de alguma coisa e todo mundo ainda guarda uma memória da inocência da infância, não importa quantas camadas de vida a cubram. A humanidade é inocente; a humanidade é culpada; ambas as afirmações são inegavelmente verdadeiras.

Welcome to life as a god, Scythe Volta said to him. While behind them the building was burning to the ground.

We are angels of death, said Scythe Goddard. It is only fitting that we swoop in from the heavens.

But then who is he to decide if Dirk truly was soulless? Better to err on the side of grace.

The Thunderhead sees just about everything, what with cameras everywhere. But it also decides what infractions are worth the effort to address and which ones are not.

It means I chose wisely," Scythe Faraday told her. "If you do not cry yourself to sleep on a regular basis, you are not compassionate enough to be a scythe.

The end doesn't always justify the means, dear, she said. But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

All this time, Lev never realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all-forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world. By someone who once despised him. Someone like Miracolina.

The Thunderhead has its reasons for everything," the nonplussed colleague said. "The fact that we can't see the logic shows our limitations, not the Thunderhead's.

And if there is some eternal world after this one, what fate awaits a taker of lives?

How is a scythe disciplined?" Rowan had asked. "He was put to death twelvefold by a jury of scythes, then revived each time. After the twelfth revival, he was on probation for a year.

Marie, if we were judged by the things we most regret, no human being would be worthy to sweep the floor.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue. It was beyond madness.

I hope you approve of how we've used your image to help these children." Lev finds himself in no position to approve, or disapprove, or even to judge the wisdom of it. How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts. All he can do is go with it, and take his place as some sort of spiritual figure. There are worse things. Having experienced several of them, there is no question that this is better.

How can you choose the lesser of two evils, when both evils are too great to measure?

We are angels of death," said Scythe Goddard. "It is only fitting that we swoop in from the heavens.

Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

Whores are natural