Quotes About Judgment

Well, my stars, the thing was like the Bible—look hard enough in its pages, and you'll find what you seek. Love your neighbor, or slay him with the jawbone of an ass.

All down the years, words have been flung like pieces of shit, only to get stuck on a truck bumper with up-yours pride. Rednecks, moonshiners, ridge runners, hicks. Deplorables.

but born in the mobile home, so that's like the Eagle Scout of trailer trash.

Recently it has been decided, grudgingly, that dark skin or lameness may not be entirely one's fault, but one still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed.

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

By a man's fingernails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the calluses of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuffs, by his movements—by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent enquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. SHERLOCK HOLMES, 1892

Must look down on the hate of those below. —LORD BYRON, 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

As Benjamin Disraeli said, It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Better a wise r?nin, I decided, than a naïve samurai.

What cops call hunches," Trahan said, "FBI hackers call pattern recognition.

Open your eyes, you idiot, I wanted to say. This woman is a shark. She's from a different world, a different species. There's something way fucking wrong here. Instead: "Harry, my gut tends to be pretty good about these things.

unconscious expectations were simply assumptions based primarily on foolish prejudice, itself likely the product of a lack of thought and experience

When I'd killed Ozawa at the sent?, I'd briefly wondered whether I was now one of the bad guys. By the time I did McGraw, I'd figured out there are no bad guys, any more than there are good guys. There are only smart people, and stupid ones; puppets, and puppet masters. Better a wise r?nin, I decided, than a naïve samurai.

Ultimately, all executions are political. Their exercise is arbitrary, often capricious, and irrevocable.

And there was no ultimate reality—any culture that would judge the perceptions of another, particularly one outside its own traditions, should proceed cautiously.

Being able to criticize our own certainties is often a painful struggle, demanding some courage as we try to stand back and impartially judge ourselves and our own responsibility.

Bottom line—the options we consider usually suffer from comparison with other options.

How people look is yet another thing that they are now responsible for deciding for themselves.

decisions as trivial as renting a video become important if we believe that these decisions are revealing something significant about ourselves.

Ä°nsanlar? iki kategoriye ay?r?n. Yeterince iyi olanlar ve olmayanlar. Yeterince iyi olanlar? ÅŸapkan?n içine koyun. Yeterince iyi olmayanlar ise reddedilmiÅŸ olsun.

ANYTIME YOU MAKE A DECISION AND IT DOESN'T TURN OUT WELL or you find an alternative that would have turned out better, you're a candidate for regret.

If we are responsible for an action that turns out badly and if it almost turned out well, then we are prime candidates for regret.

the fact that some choice is good doesn't necessarily mean that more choice is better.

CHOOSING WELL IS DIFFICULT, AND MOST DECISIONS HAVE SEVERAL different dimensions.