Quotes About Judgment

Never had any trouble distinguishing between a varmint and a gentleman. Where I come from, we get rid of the varmints.

I follow someone's lead until they prove to me they aren't worth it and thin I don't.

I've often wondered why there should be some people who want everything about me to be false or masculine, or what my critics would say if I suddenly appeared with close-cropped hair, no makeup and in men's clothing. I strongly suspect that, too, would leave them unsatisfied.

Agatha Christie's tales were aggressively anti-intellectual and crueller for it; hers was a world where confirmed bachelors committed suicide out of shame.

There is a special place in hell for people who bring children into this world solely for the sake of seeming better than they are.

he looked at] her hair the color of cinnamon and decided he didn't like cinnamon. It ruined a good piece of toast as far as he was concerned.

That way if they were disappointed or disgusted with her, she'd only have to live with that reaction for a couple of months.

The lesson of the biblical tale of Noah's ark was a simple one, a refrain that echoed throughout the Old Testament: Behave, or God will fuck you up.

The lesson of the biblical tale of Noah's ark was a simple one, a refrain that echoed throughout the Old Testament: behave, or God will fuck you up.

It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

Actions and words are judged by reputations, and not the other way around.

Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?

There is, and there always has been, an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person's propensity to be impressed by the measurement of I.Q.

And now behold what this pious old trout hath wrought.

Those who try to condemn or embarrass you by the company you keep will usually be found to be in very poor company themselves; in any case they are, as I was once taught to say, tackling the man and not the ball.

And in these four things, opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear, and taking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seed of religion; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.

Incidentally, by what awful ironic betrayal of our language do we find ourselves accusing bigots and tribalists of the sin of 'discrimination'? They are the ones who judge severely by category, and yet can't tell anyone apart. 'Discrimination' is only one of the moral and intellectual exercises that they are quite unable to perform.

ground)—"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"—has entered our literature and our consciousness. This episode

I suppose you've decided I'm a dirty old man?

Good and bad are just constructs people use.

It's the ones who don't blame themselves who are more likely to be guilty of wrongdoing.

Hell and confusion light upon their heads.

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.