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Quotes About Judgment

The intelligence of a mob can be determined by dividing the lowest IQ present by the number of people in the mob.
~ John D. MacDonald
That old honorary Cuban had simplified the question all to hell when he'd said that a moral act is something you feel good after. Conversely, you feel bad after an immoral act. But what about the act that is neither moral nor immoral, Papa? How are you supposed to feel then?
~ John D. MacDonald
What you feel good after one time, you feel rotten after the next. And it is difficult to know in advance. And morality shouldn't be experimental, I don't think.
~ John D. MacDonald
I had a horror of the danger of arrogance. What a pitiful thing it is when a man lets a little temporary success spoil him, warp his judgment, and he forgets what he is!
~ John Davison Rockefeller
Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
~ John Dryden
Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
~ John Dryden
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth in an open market, is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~ John F Kennedy
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~ John F. Kennedy
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.
~ John F. Kennedy
When the Word of God is ignored and violated, divine judgment is inevitable. The spiritual lessons embodied in the cold fact of the captivity may well be pondered by the church today, which too often has a form of godliness but without its power. Worldly saints do not capture the world but become instead the world's captives.
~ Unknown
I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive.
~ John Fowles
A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.
~ John Fowles
Cel care creeaz? nu-l poate iubi pe cel care critic?. Exist? o diferen?? prea mare între cele dou? activit??i. Una este naÈ™tere, cealalt? chirurgie.
~ John Fowles
Aveam dou?zeci È™i cinci de ani, vârsta ta, Nicholas, asta-È›i poate spune mai mult decât orice cât eram de incapabil s?-l judec. Cred c? este vârsta cea mai dificil? È™i enervant?. Înseamn? a fi È™i a observa totodat?. EÈ™ti inteligent È™i considerat om în toat? firea. Unii te reduc la starea de adolescen??, pentru c? numai experienÈ›a poate s? înÈ›eleag? È™i s? asimileze.
~ John Fowles
There was no art in cultures as ancient as the Egyptian and the Minoan. Conscious art did not exist for them. They wanted only to control. That is how they would want us to judge them - by how well they controlled
~ John Fowles
Bir budalan?n düÅŸtüÄŸü yüksekliÄŸin öfkesiyle ölçüldüÄŸünü biliyordum.
~ John Fowles
FALDER is sitting exactly opposite to the JUDGE, who, raised above the clamour of the court, also seems unconscious of and indifferent to everything.
~ John Galsworthy
A glance at any human should be enough to dispel any notion that it is the work of an intelligent being.
~ John Gray
Wanting to improve someone feels like love but it is not. Changing ourselves to do what works instead of trying to change our partner, letting go of judgment, and finding forgiveness are the true expressions of love.
~ John Gray
Rejection, judgment, and abandonment are most painful because deep inside her unconscious she holds the incorrect belief that she is unworthy of receiving more.
~ John Gray
Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.
~ John Grisham
God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed…" -Judge Frank Howell Seay
~ John Grisham
What would his friends think? The Honorable Hatlee Beech, federal judge, writing prose like a faggot, extorting money out of innocent people.
~ John Grisham
Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.
~ John Grisham