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Quotes About Judgment

The problem with heroes and villains is that it's not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.
~ Jessica Meats, Omega Rising
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.
~ Kenan Malik
Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.
~ Wolf Pascoe
People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.
~ Mira Grant, Countdown
[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)
~ Saul Tanpepper
Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.
~ Carl Sagan, Contact
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
~ Honore de Balzac
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.
~ Jaden Smith
It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.
~ Emil Zatopek
Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.
~ Haruki Murakami
I flashed her a smile, but she didn't even look at me. So for brains and good judgment, I'd give her a three.
~ Bobby Bare
I'm just saying, 'Hey, throw me a bone. How about a smile, cute t-shirt? Look at me.' Nothing - unless it's a turn to their friends to go, 'Hey, why is that weird guy looking at us?'
~ Marc Maron
A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.
~ J. E. Buckrose
With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.
~ Ann Aguirre
If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.
~ Edward Hoagland
He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Every girl is beautiful, it's society that's ugly.
~ Oliver Sykes
We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
~ Émile Durkheim
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
~ Tilda Swinton
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
~ Oscar Wilde
The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
~ Hugo Black