Quotes About Judgment

Faute. « C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute. » (Talleyrand.) « Il n'y a plus une seule faute à commettre. » (Thiers.) Ces deux phrases doivent être articulées avec profondeur.

A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

Les célébrités : s'inquiéter du moindre détail de leur vie privée, afin de pouvoir les dénigrer.

Il avait sa casquette enfoncée sur ses sourcils, et ses deux grosses lèvres tremblotaient, ce qui ajoutait à son visage quelque chose de stupide ; son dos même, son dos tranquille était irritant à voir, et elle y trouvait étalée sur la redingote toute la platitude du personnage.

Alors une faculté pitoyable se développa dans leur esprit, celle de voir la bêtise et de ne plus la tolérer.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Bientôt la conversation reprit entre les trois dames, que la présence de cette fille avait rendues subitement amies, presque intimes. Elles devaient faire, leur semblait-il, comme un faisceau de leurs dignités d'épouses en face de cette vendue sans vergogne; car l'amour légal le prend toujours de haut avec son libre confrère.

Institutionalised love always looks down on her more liberal sister

She was no longer the fair-haired, colourless girl whom I had seen at the church fifteen years before, but a stout, over-dressed lady, one of those ladies with no age, no character, no elegance, no wit, nor any of the attributes that constitute a woman. She was merely a mother, a fat, commonplace mother, the breeder, the human brood-mare, the procreating machine made of flesh, with no interests but her children and her cookery-book.

One way to prevent yourself from going through a considerable amount of useless pain is to see the truth of the following and then to act upon your discovery accordingly: judging others doesn't change how much they disturb you; it serves only to distract you from seeing just how little it actually takes to set you off.

Accept that people aren't good or bad. Good people can do bad things, and bad people can do good things.

There was no insinuation (one very likely today) that she lacked the cultural values of India and exhibited the lax morals of Western women.

You defend your humanity with patience and determination, by making your voice heard to those who judge you a lesser being for your timeworn clothes, your callused hands, and your sunburned skin.

People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.

Pode ser um pecado pensar mal dos outros, mas raramente sera um engano

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

If it were advertised that a troupe of men of easy virtue were to appear half-clothed upon a public stage, exposing their chests, thighs, arms and calves, the only women who would go to the entertainment would be a few delayed adolescents, a psychopathic old maid or two, and a guard of indignant members of the parish Ladies Aid.

The common man is a fool.

Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and those ways were the sole makers of their present thoughts and judgments, and the sole guides and standards in a meaningless universe without fixed aims or stable points of reference.

Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions.

Damnation, is but a word bandied about by those whose blindness leads them to condemn all who can see

There are things which cannot be mentioned, and what is done in common humanity is sometimes cruelly judged by the law.

El juicio sobrio era un arte perdido; aunque no hubo un segundo exodo, reino el vicio y la imprudencia surgida de la desesperacion, similar al fenomeno de los tiempos medievales de la peste