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Quotes About Judgment

Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs are bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.
~ George R. R. Martin
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die... a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
~ George R.R. Martin
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
~ George R.R. Martin
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
~ George R.R. Martin
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
~ George R.R. Martin
There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.
~ George R.R. Martin
Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.
~ George R.R. Martin
Jon wanted nothing more. No , he had to tell himself, those days are gone . The realization twisted in his belly like a knife. They had chosen him to rule. The Wall was his, and their lives were his as well. A lord may love the men that he commands, he could hear his lord father saying, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.
~ George R.R. Martin
You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
~ George R.R. Martin
a man who hates music can't be trusted, I always say.
~ George R.R. Martin
Whore!" someone cried out. A woman's voice. Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.
~ George R.R. Martin
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
~ George R.R. Martin
If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil.
~ George R.R. Martin
And the crow once called the raven black.
~ George R.R. Martin
The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.
~ George R.R. Martin
No Queen has clean hands.
~ George R.R. Martin
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?
~ George R.R. Martin
I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am not without mercy," thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.
~ George R.R. Martin
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
~ George R.R. Martin
Harsh justice is still justice.
~ George R.R. Martin
A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.
~ George R.R. Martin
A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.
~ George R.R. Martin
Cuando la gente se muere de hambre, no ve con buenos ojos a los sacerdotes que están tan gordos que no pueden caminar.
~ George R.R. Martin