Quotes About Judgment

We demonize our enemies at our own peril.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

When something is not good, it's bad. Period.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

God knows what the Yanks will make of 'Kevin and Perry.' It's totally gross to them because we don't look like we're off 'Dawson's Creek' or whatever. They'll think we're really weird.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

After you have done everything to please a man and he's taken his pleasure with you, all you are for him is a whore, and a whore's daughter.

It is impossible to bless and judge at the same time. So hold constantly as a deep, hallowed, intoned thought the desire to bless, for truly then shall you become a peacemaker, and one day you shall behold, everywhere, the very face of God. And, of course, above all, do not forget to bless the utterly beautiful person you are.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

On the one hand, the falsest judgments, whether based on isolated facts or only on appearances, always embrace some truths whose sphere, whether large or small, affords room for a certain number of inferences, beyond which we fall into absurdity.

It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

MEETING THE EYE You'll probably find that it suits your book to be a bit cleverer than you look. Observe that the easiest method by far is to look a bit stupider than you are.

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK Some people cower and wince and shrink, owing to fear of what people may think. There is one answer to worries like these: people may think what the devil they please.

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."