Quotes About Judgment

They're scared. They're afraid we won't be worthy of them.

Forse dovresti imparare a capire chi sono gli amici e chi i nemici.

I know I`m mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.

A veces no me gustas, Lenù, lo subestimas todo, subestimas a todos, incluso a la gente que con solo verla se hace querer.

If Vittoria really is that, I thought, discouraged, then she is ugly, she has the ugliness of banality.

Comment avais-je pu imaginer lui plaire, ne serait-ce que le temps des vacances, moi la petite ronde à lunettes, certes appliquée mais pas intelligente, moi qui prétendais être cultivée et informée mais ne l'étais pas?

Quant à mes professeurs, ils semblaient avoir décidé d'emblée que j'étais une excellente élève par une sorte d'inertie inhérente à l'ensemble de ce système scolaire poussiéreux.

Guardami» mormorò, «so di essere cattiva a dirti queste cose, ma lui è assai più cattivo di me. Ha la cattiveria peggiore, quella della superficialità».

Desde hacía un tiempo yo no distinguía entre zonas públicas y privadas, no me importada que la gente me oyera y juzgara, advertía un fuerte deseo de representar mi rabia como si estuviera sobre un escenario. Cógela, le grité, no la soporto

Bons ou maus, todos os homens acham que, a cada ação deles, você deve colocá-los num altar como um são Jorge matando o dragão.

Todos en el juzgado parecían estar inoculados en contra de la crítica y la autocrítica; unos se rascaban las costillas, otros los sobacos, las mujeres se arreglaban un tirante del brasier, pujando. (...) Total, que si ninguno se veía a sí mismo, ninguno veía tampoco a los demás.

Criticar al César no es criticar a Roma. Criticar a un gobierno no es criticar al país. •Carlos Fuentes, al reportero Guillermo Ochoa, Excélsior, 4 de marzo de 1969

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Moral indignation is a bad counsellor.

This dogmatic and insistent moralism clearly ends by seriously impairing Toynbee's judgment. He refuses to concede what common experience teaches, namely that the wicked do quite often flourish like the green bay tree, that in human affairs force and violence are occasionally decisive, or that love and gentleness are sometimes productive of evil.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

I learned a lot from that, like how much it hurt to see how other people described you, and how things that you said about another person, especially your parents, seemed neutral when addressed to a third party, but lethal when you thought about your parents reading it.

Most people, the minute they met you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people—people they could get rid of.

Part of the way of the world was that women had a tendency to go crazy. Men could bring out this tendency. But to blame the men was to take sides, to lose logic, to enter the craziness of the women—because the very content of the women's craziness was, in large part, the blameworthiness of the men.

I liked the sweeter ones, but I knew it would sound childish to say so.

Respect for the dead comes second to respect for the living, and I believe no man's demise exempts him from culpability.

Officialdom needs to put you in a categorizing box, and if it cannot then it is free to make its own verdict upon your status

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.