Quotes About Judgment

Maybe knowing about craziness means you don't have to fall for it.

Mark my words, when a government pretends that it is the highest judge of its own actions, the result is not freedom as Jefferson says, but chaos and oppression. When he shuts religion out of government, when men of faith are not listened to, then all that remains is venality, posturing, and ambition.

She [Queen Isabella] will look at you as women look at men. She will judge you as women judge men. Not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness, or their prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character; the intesity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and, ah, this above all...their conversation.

They also knew that Ender trusted them to do as they judged best when he gave them no orders.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.

What's worthless to you might not be worthless to me.

What the world is seeing is that the savior of the world has a little problem – he kills children.

If the dead could forgive, should not the living? Harrison would find his own way through life, and his own path to death. Judgment would have to come, if it came at all, from someone wiser than Alvin.

We saved our lives, Ender.' 'No,' said Ender. 'That's what we thought we were doing, and that's what we should be judged for – but what we really did was slaughter a species that wanted desperately to make peace with us, to try to understand us – but they never understood what speech and language were. This is the first time they've had a chance to find a voice.

Still, just because humans did it, too, did not make it sensible.

But I can promise you that there's somebody else somewhere else who'll make your god look like a maggot by comparison.

Such feelings are natural. They come and go quickly. Only those who make them a way of life are to be condemned for them.

Does a daughter judge her father?" whispered Qing-jao. "Of course she does," said Father. "Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.

Orson Scott Card

He's a pig," said Shen. Ender shrugged. "On the whole, pigs aren't so bad.

Are great men ever really good? I know they can be, but we judge them by a different standard. Greatness changes them, whatever they were to start with. It's like war—does any war ever settle anything? But we can't judge that way. The test of a war isn't whether it solved things. You have to ask, Was fighting the war better than not fighting it? And I guess the same kind of test ought to be used on great men.

So you choose to measure by the only standard that allows your life to be meaningless?

When you don't understand the consequences for your acts, how can you be blamed for them?

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

There is no sin except stupidity.