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Quotes About Judgment

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
~ Francis Schaeffer
I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.
~ Saina Nehwal
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.
~ Alice Miller
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
~ John Major
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
~ Edmund Burke
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
~ Martha Beck
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
~ Oscar Wilde
Usted no encuentra, pues, odioso, despreciable, que una mujer abandone a su marido y a sus hijas para seguir a un hombre cualquiera, del que nada sabe, ni siquiera si es digno de su amor? ¿Puede usted realmente excusar una conducta tan atolondrada y liviana en una mujer que, además, no es ya una jovencita y que siquiera por amor a sus hijas hubiese debido preocuparse de su propia dignidad?
~ Zweig, Stefan
La esencia de la actitud displicente surge de un embotamiento de la capacidad de discriminar.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
The desire to demonize others is based on the ontological uncertainties.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Tenemos opiniones definidas acerca de cómo hacer las cosas y de cómo deberían ser los otros. Estas opiniones carecen de comprensión, porque cuanto más definitivas son las opiniones, tanto más necesario es que no nos distraigamos comprendiendo demasiado a los que queremos cambiar".
~ Zygmunt Bauman
To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power, contained in your intellect and judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, the divine.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Though you are Ivanov the seventh, you're a fool all the same.
~ A. I. Kuprin
The first time [Christ] came to slay sin in men. The second time He will come to slay men in sin.
~ A. W. Pink
So this is death, observed Eddie. He felt his shoulder-blades, passed a hand above his head. No wings. No halo, either. Guess we didn't make the grade as angels.
~ A.J. Butcher
We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
~ Abigail Adams
Ageism is the intimate colonisation of embodied time by the vampiric forces of patriarchal capitalism that instils an ideological timebomb in the female mind that ticks with the incessant and cruel warning that the passing of time is something for which women must be punished. Women, far more than men, are judged by how old they are and how old they look. The threatening ticking of male domination reduces women's social and economic worth to how "fresh" we appear.
~ Abigail Bray
other people's condiments are depressing.
~ Abigail Thomas
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
~ Abraham Lincoln
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln
but let us judge not that we be not judged.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~ Abraham Lincoln