Quotes About Judgment

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

History passes the final judgment

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Today's headlines and history's judgement are not the same.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

Why couldn't I have just made it home without seeing them? I wasn't in the mood to play good freaking Samaritan to Beau and his trashy girlfriend.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.

Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?