Quotes About Judgment

We are all Expressionists part of the time. Sometimes we just want to scream loudly at injustice, or to stand up and be counted. These are noble motives, but any serious revolutionist must often deprive himself of the pleasures of self-expression. He must judge his actions by their ultimate effects on institutions.

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

If you want to find a child's weakness, failures, personal problems, or inadequacies, you'll discover them. If you look at a child through the filter of her or his environment or economic status, and make judgments through the filters of your own cultural, gender, and racial biases, you'll find the characteristics you expect.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.

311eschatology lives in the heart of all.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

it is always he, unfortunate wretch, who assumes the rôle of executioner in the process of value-disintegration, and on the day when the trumpets of judgment sound it is the man released from all values who becomes the executioner of a world that has pronounced its own sentence.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Ovšemže úsudky mohou být v mnoha p?ípadech nesprávné, jak se správn? obáváte. Ale o to práv? nejde, nýbrž o to, aby se dal žák?m svobodný prostor pro to vyjád?it své vlastní pocity, vlastní úsudky - i když jsou zkreslené.

For great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.

Cuando callamos, resultamos desagradables ... cuando hablamos, quedamos en ridículo.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on the earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.